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Gómez Suárez de Figueroa is the name the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was called by his acquaintances. He was born in Cuzco on 12 April 1539. He descends on his mother's side, Isabel Isabel Chimpu Ocllo, from the Incas Tupac Yupanqui and Huayna Capac. By his father, Captain Sebastian...
We know of the existence of La Florida del Inca, thanks to the dedicatory of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to King Phillip II on his translation of Diálogos de Amor (dated 1586), although this book was printed afterwards in 1605. In order to write this work, Inca Garcilaso...
This is the most famous work of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, commonly named Los comentarios reales. In the XX century, this book is known as a text that should be approached from different perspectives. In Los comentarios reales, the Inca consecrates himself as a mestizo writer who was...
This work, also known as Segunda parte de los Comentarios reales (Second part of the Comentarios Reales), was announced in the introduction of the translation of Diálogos de amor in 1586. Although the chronicle work of the Inca was conceived as a unit, this second part was printed separately, as...
The First part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro Cieza de León is described by the BNE as part of the library of the Inca Garcilaso: Among the chronicles of Peruvian material published before the Comentarios reales, we find the chronicle of the Pedro Cieza de León, born in...
The first part is known as Hispania Victrix; the second part is titled Historia de la conquista de México. The defense that the author adopted through his work in the two parts is due to his political project: The figure of Hernán Cortés is the culmination of the great theopolitical...
Doctrina christiana, y catecismo para instrvccion de los indios, y de las de mas perʃonas, que han de ʃer enʃeñadas en nueʃtra ʃancta fé : con vn confessionario, y otras cosas neceʃʃarias se publicó en Lima, Perú, en 1584. Fue el primer libro impreso en América del Sur. Se trataba...