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Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two (Paperback)
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Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two (Paperback)
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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.
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