Luis Enrique Nieto Arango

The history of the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario has been studied in multiple ways. From the moment of its foundation, different myths and legends have been woven around the Cloister, its founder, Cristóbal de Torres, and even its students. However, it is the first time that we can see this story through the eyes of Luis Enrique Nieto Arango (R.I.P.). Both in his role as an enthusiast of the history of the Universidad del Rosario, as well as a privileged witness to several major events, Luis Enrique offers us his critical and acute, but also generous and subtle view on a series of anecdotes, facts, and characters of our institutional life.

This book serves as an introduction to some controversial and high-tension moments in the history of the University and the country and provides the curious reader with clues and references to continue investigating them in greater depth. The still ongoing conversation with this exemplary Rosario alumnus will allow developing an understanding of how the ethereal notion that all of us who have ever passed through the classrooms of the Cloister call “the Rosario spirit” was conceived and how it could be defined.