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See also:OVIEDO Y See also:VALDES, GONZALO See also:FERNANDEZ DE (1478-1557) , See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born at See also:Madrid in See also:August 1478. Educated ht the See also:court of See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella, in his thirteenth See also:year he became See also:page to their son, the See also:Infante See also:Don See also:John, was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Granada, and there saw See also:Columbus previous to his voyage to See also:America. On the See also:death of See also:Prince John (4th of See also:October 1497), Oviedo went to See also:Italy, and there acted as secretary to Gonzalo Fernandez de See also:Cordoba. In 1514 he was appointed supervisor of See also:gold-smeltings at See also:San Domingo, and on his return to See also:Spain in 1523 was appointed historiographer of the Indies. He paid five more visits to America before his death, which took See also:place at See also:Valladolid in 1557.
Besides a See also:romance of See also:chivalry entitled Claribalte (1519) Oviedo wrote two extensive See also:works of permanent value: La See also:General y natural historia de See also:las Indias and Las Quinquagenas de la nobleza de Espana. The former See also:work was first issued at. See also:Toledo (1526) in the See also:form of a See also:summary entitled La Natural hystoria de las Indias; the first See also:part of La Historia general de las Indias appeared at See also:Seville in 1535; but the See also:complete work was not published till 1851-1855, when it was edited by J. A. de los Rios for the Spanish See also:Academy of See also:History. Though written in a diffuse See also:style, it embodies a See also:mass of curious See also:information collected at first See also:hand, and. the incomplete Seville edition was widely read in the See also:English and See also:French versions published by See also:Eden and Poleur respectively in 1555 and 1556. Las Casas describes it as " containing almost as many lies as pages," and Oviedo undoubtedly puts the most favourable See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation on the proceedings of his countrymen; but, apart from a patriotic See also:bias which is too obvious to be misleading, his narrative is both trustworthy and interesting. In his Quinquagenas he indulges in much lively See also:gossip concerning eminent contemporaries; this collection of See also:quaint, moralizing anecdotes was first published at Madrid in 188o, under the editorship of See also:Vicente de la Fuente.
End of Article: OVIEDO Y VALDES, GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE (1478-1557)
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