The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged

The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged
Title The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged PDF eBook
Author Garcilaso De La Vega
Publisher Hackett Publishing
Pages 264
Release 2006-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 1603848568

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This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two
Title Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two PDF eBook
Author Garcilaso de la Vega
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 0
Release 2014-12-19
Genre History
ISBN 9781477300008

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Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important place in Spanish letters, Garcilaso was fiercely proud of his Indian ancestry and wrote under the name El Inca. Royal Commentaries of the Incas is the account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler. For the material in Part One of Royal Commentaries—the history of the Inca civilization prior to the arrival of the Spaniards—Garcilaso drew upon "what I often heard as a child from the lips of my mother and her brothers and uncles and other elders . . . [of] the origin of the Inca kings, their greatness, the grandeur of their empire, their deeds and conquests, their government in peace and war, and the laws they ordained so greatly to the advantage of their vassals." The conventionalized and formal history of an oral tradition, Royal Commentaries describes the gradual imposition of order and civilization upon a primitive and barbaric world. To this Garcilaso adds facts about the geography and the flora and fauna of the land; the folk practices, religion, and superstitions; the agricultural and the architectural and engineering achievements of the people; and a variety of other information drawn from his rich store of traditional knowledge, personal observation, or speculative philosophy. Important though it is as history, Garcilaso's classic is much more: it is also a work of art. Its gracious and graceful style, skillfully translated by Harold V. Livermore, succeeds in bringing to life for the reader a genuine work of literature. Part Two covers the Spanish conquest of the Incas.

Royal Commentaries of the Incas, and General History of Peru

Royal Commentaries of the Incas, and General History of Peru
Title Royal Commentaries of the Incas, and General History of Peru PDF eBook
Author el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
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Pages 0
Release 1966
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Royal Commentaries of the Incas, and General History of Peru

Royal Commentaries of the Incas, and General History of Peru
Title Royal Commentaries of the Incas, and General History of Peru PDF eBook
Author Garcilaso de la Vega
Publisher
Pages 1530
Release 1966
Genre Incas
ISBN

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Royal Commentaries of the Incas

Royal Commentaries of the Incas
Title Royal Commentaries of the Incas PDF eBook
Author Garcilaso de la Vega
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Pages 1530
Release 1970
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Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru
Title Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru PDF eBook
Author Garcilaso De la Vega
Publisher
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Release 1989
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Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru
Title Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru PDF eBook
Author Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca
Publisher
Pages 1530
Release 1966
Genre Incas
ISBN

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