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Federico García Lorca met Ignacio Sánchez Mejías on the occasion of the tribute that the Seville Athenaeum dedicated to Góngora. At the bullfighter’s estate, Pino Montano (located on the outskirts of Seville), the participants celebrated those days of poetry and friendship. They also had a friend in common, Encarnación López Júlvez, La Argentinita (Buenos Aires, 1898- Madrid, 1945), the singer and dancer who recorded the popular songs harmonized by Federico García Lorca who also accompanied her on the piano. La Argentinita was the bullfighter’s common-law partner.