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In 1590, half a century after the founding of Lima, the monumental work of Father José de Acosta was published in Seville: Historia natural y moral de las Indias. This publication was not exempt from controversy from the accusation of plagiarism to Father Juan de Tovar, author of the First...
The only translation made by the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was Dialoghi d’amore (1535), from the Jew Portuguese writer Judah Abravanel, known as León Hebreo. The importance of the Spanish version of this work is not only because of the influence that León Hebreo had in the Comentarios reales of...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a pilgrim in fiction and in the real life. He was in Algiers, Italy and Portugal, but could not fulfill his dream of arriving in America. However, he applied to more than one post in the West Indies to serve as a Crown official. The...
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Sumaria relación, estudio y edición de Joaquín Zuleta Carrandi, 2015, 336 pp. ISBN: 9788484898894 En 1581, la Corona de España se propone uno de los proyectos defensivos más ambiciosos de su tiempo: la fortificación del estrecho de Magallanes. Para ello, Felipe II ordena la preparación, en...