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VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA

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VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA , called " Inca " (e. 1535-1616), historian of See also:Peru, was See also:born at See also:Cuzco. His See also:father, Sebastiano Garcilaso (d. 1559), was a See also:cadet of the illustrious See also:family of La Vega, who had gone to Peru in the See also:suite of Pedro de See also:Alvarado, and his See also:mother was of the Peruvian See also:blood-royal, a circumstance of which he was very proud as giving him a right to the See also:title which he claimed by invariably subscribing himself "Inca." About 156o he removed to See also:Spain, and after serving against the See also:Moors incurred the hatred of See also:Philip II. and was imprisoned at See also:Valladolid. He died in Spain in 1616. A diligent student of the See also:language and traditions of his maternal ancestors, Garcilaso See also:left a valuable See also:work on Peruvian See also:history; the first See also:part, en- titled Comentarios reales que, tratan del See also:origen de los Vexes, was first published at See also:Lisbon in 16o9, and the second part, Historia See also:general del Peru, in 1617: His history is a source from which all subsequent writers on the subject have largely See also:drawn, and still continues to be one of the See also:chief authorities on See also:ancient Peru. An See also:English See also:translation by See also:Sir See also:Paul Rycaut was published in 1688; one of the first part of the work by Sir C. R. See also:Markham for the See also:Hakluyt Society (See also:London, 1869–71); and the See also:book has also been translated into See also:French. Garcilaso also wrote a history of See also:Florida, La Florida del Ynca, historia deladelantado Hernando de See also:Soto (Lisbon, 16os, and again See also:Madrid, 1723). An edition of his See also:works in seventeen volumes was published at Madrid in '1800. See W.

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Prescott, History of the 'See also:Conquest of Peru, vol. i. (London, 1902) ; Sir' C. R..Markham, The Incas of Peru (1910).

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