Manzi, with themes like the lost paradise of childhood and forgotten cities of the golden age, is the first tango lyricist to be considered a poet in the eyes of the critics. He is the poet who best described the charms of Buenos Aires.

For Manzi, writing meant giving shape to ideas, memories. Frame by frame, he paints a scenery, outlines characters and gives them life. Their emotions are always authentic - for Manzi has great sensibility and a true love of Buenos Aires and its inhabitants.

His style of writing, influenced by the impressionnist movement, is very close to screenplay writing. It is not surprising that, from 1940 to 1948, he worked as a scriptwriter and director on more than 20 movies.

In 1948, brought down by cancer, Manzi stopped writing. He died three years later, on May 3rd, at the age of 46. He left us some of the greatest tangos of all times.

Here are the lyrics of four tangos, both in french and spanish, written during the last years of his life, at a time when his art had reached its peak.

It was written in honor of his good friend Enrique Discepolo, nicknamed Discepolin. In 1948, the year Manzi wrote this poem, Discepolos was suffering from tubercolosis. The fact that both men were broken by illness sheds a new light on this tango.