Roberto Levillier

Levillier served as a diplomat in different countries in Europe (Spain, Portugal, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the Soviet Union) and in Peru.^[1] In 1920 he was part of the Argentine delegation that participated in the first assembly of the League of Nations, along with Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear and Honorio Pueyrredón.^[2] Between 1935 and 1937 he was ambassador to Mexico. Between 1938 and 1941 he was ambassador to Uruguay.^[1] Despite his initial sympathy for the National Socialist regime,^[3] during his stay in Europe he provided aid to persecuted Jews.^[4]

From a young age he became interested in historiography, publishing his Nueva crónica de la conquista del Tucumán; The first volume was published in Madrid in 1926, with the following two volumes from the years 1930 and 1932.^[4]

In 1942, after retiring from diplomatic activity, he devoted himself fully to historical work. His interest lay in the period of conquest and colony, from a point of view sympathetic to the conquerors and unfavorable to the native peoples.^[5] He dedicated himself especially to the compilation and publication of unpublished documents. He stated that Américo Vespucci had arrived at the Río de la Plata. In 1955 he earned a place for life in the National Academy of History of Argentina.^[4]

A street in the city of Buenos Aires, another in Córdoba and another in Santiago del Estero bear his name.^[1]

• Antecedentes de política económica en el Río de la Plata: documentos originales de los siglos XVI al XIX, Madrid: Tip. "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", 1915.
• Santo Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo, Arzobispo de los Reyes (1581-1606). Organizador de la Iglesia en el Virreinato del Perú. Madrid, 1920.
• Nueva crónica de la conquista del Tucumán. 3 volumes. Madrid, 1926.
• Papeles Eclesiásticos del Tucumán. 2 volumes. Madrid, Imprenta de Juan Pueyo, 1926.
• Biografía de los conquistadores de la Argentina en el siglo XVI. Madrid, Imprenta de Juan Pueyo, 1928.
• Francisco de Aguirre y los orígenes del Tucumán, 1550-1570. Madrid, Imprenta de Juan Pueyo, 1930.
• García de Castro, Lope, Despatch, Lima, Mar. 6, 1565, Gobernantes del Perú, cartas y papeles, Siglo xvi, Documentos del Archivo de Indias, Colección de Publicaciones Históricas de la Biblioteca del Congreso Argentino, ed. Roberto Levillier, 14 volumes., Madrid, 1921–6. In Hemming.
• Don Francisco De Toledo, supremo organizador del Perú, su vida, su obra (1515–1582). Buenos Aires: Porter hnos., 1935–1940.
• Descubrimiento y Población del Norte Argentino por españoles del Perú. Desde la entrada al Tucumán hasta la fundación de Santiago del Estero 1543-1553. Espasa-Calpe S.A., Buenos Aires, 1943.
• Guerras y conquistas en Tucumán y Cuyo. Imprenta Porter hnos. Buenos Aires, 1945
• Americo Vespucio. Ediciones Cultura Hispánica. Madrid, 1966.
• Enciclopedia de Historia Argentina, 5 tomos. Plaza & Janes S.A. Editores Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1968.

• La tienda de los espejos. Editorial Saturnino Calleja, Buenos Aires, 1921.
• Rumbo Sur, 1937
• Estampas Virreinales Americanas. E. Calpe 1939.
• Amor Con Dolor Se Paga. E. Calpe 1944.