Perhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition is the fact that, although it is easily the first great classic of American history, it had never before received a complete or otherwise adequate English translation in the 346 years which have elapsed since its publication in Spanish. Now the Inca's thrilling narrative comes into its own in the English speaking world.
Hernando de Soto's expedition for the conquest of North America was the most ambitious ever to brave the perils of the New World. Garcilaso tells in remarkably rich detail of the conquistadors' wanderings over half a continent, of the unbelievable vicissitudes which beset them, of the Indians whom they sought to win for King and Church and by whose hands most of them died, of De Soto's death, and of the final pitiful failure of the expedition.

The Florida of the Inca

History

GarciLaso De la Vega

Americas

University of Texas Press

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 EI 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 One covers the history of the Incas up to the arrival of the Spanish.

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Los Comentarios Reales de los Incas, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) (Spanish Edition)

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Excerpt from Los Comentarios Reales de los Incas, Vol. 2 Al principio de la calleja, que era la puerta del servicio de la casa, había veinte porteros de ordinario para llevar y traer hasta la segunda puerta lo que en la casa hubiese de entrar y salir. Los porteros no po dian pasar de la segunda puerta, so pena de la vida, aunque se lo man dasen de allá dentro; ni nadie lo podía mandar so la misma pena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539 (The Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro, by Garcilasso Inca De La Vega, from the 2Nd Pt. of His Royal Commentaries, Book Iii) (The Voyage of Francisco De

HardPress Publishing

1971. 5th Printing. Avon Books., 447 pages. 12 oz. (7 x 4.25 x .875 inches Paperback) . Title: The Incas: The Classic Account of the Rise and Fall of a Great American Civilization by Garcilaso De La Vega, Alain Gheerbrant (Editor) and Maria Jolas (Translator). ISBN#0380455420. History\Native Americans

The Incas

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Madrid. 1974. Aguilar. 18x14. XLVI+1411p. 1438p.

Obras Completas Con Comentario (Spanish Edition)

Ohio State Univ Pr

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

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.

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Excerpt from Los Comentarios Reales de los Incas, Vol. 6: Anotaciones y Concordancias Con las Crónicas de Indias El Palentino habiendo nombrado sin distinción de vecinos a sol dados, todos los que en la conjuración de Francisco Hernandez hemos nombrado, dice que se conjuró con otros vecinos - v soldados de matar al corregidor y alzarse con la ciudad v el reino. Lo cual cierto debió de escribir la relación de algún mal intencionado, o ofendido de algún vecino 0 vecinos del. Perú que siempre que habla dellos procura ha cerlos traidores, o a lo menos que queden indiciados o sospechosos por tales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Florida of the Inca

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One (Royal Commentaries of the Incas & General History of Peru)

Los Comentarios Reales de los Incas, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) (Spanish Edition)

Los Comentarios Reales de los Incas, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539 (The Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro, by Garcilasso Inca De La Vega, from the 2Nd Pt. of His Royal Commentaries, Book Iii) (The Voyage of Francisco De

The Incas

Obras Completas Con Comentario (Spanish Edition)

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

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

Los Comentarios Reales de los Incas, Vol. 6: Anotaciones y Concordancias Con las Crónicas de Indias (Classic Reprint)