Calvete De Estrella's De Rebus Indicis , a Latin History of the Spanish Conquest of Peru : A Study of Classical Influences and Spanish Sources

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weeks, Zebulun Q.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal, d. 1593. De rebus Indicis.

Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.

Peru.

America.

Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal, 1510-1593. De rebus Indicis.

Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal.

Local Subjects:

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal, d. 1593. De rebus Indicis.

Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Juan Cristobal Calvete de Estrella (c. 1510/20-1593) was a Spanish humanist with close connections to the courts of Charles V and Philip II, to the latter of whom he was a tutor. Among his many works in Latin and Spanish was De Rebus Indicis, a Latin history of the accounts of chroniclers, used documents probably supplied by the family of Cristobal Vaca de Castro, Francisco Pizarro's successor as governor. The book is commonly thought to be the longest continuous history of its subject in Latin. It tracks down and compares the primary sources drawn upon for De Rebus Indicis, in so far as these

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Biography of Juan Cristobal Calvete de Estrella; Purpose of Book; Importance of De Rebus Indicis; Contents of Chapters; Chapter 1: State of the Question; Brief Mentions of Calvete; Short Biographical Sketches; Scholarly Introductions and Articles; Plagiarism and De Rebus Indicis; Chapter 2: Francisco Lopez De Gomara And Augustin de Zarate; Calvete's Reasons for Writing This History; Four Sources of the First Four Books; The Unknown Pilot; New Lands or India?; Mutiny and Malice; Methods

Augustin de ZarateChapter 3: Pedro De Cieza De Leon And Pedro De La Gasca; Pedro Cieza de Leon; Perspicuitas; Pedro de la Gasca; Geographical Excursus; Place Names; Narrator and Exornator; Chapter 4: Sources of Book Five through Seven; Cristobal Vaca de Castro; Private and Public Letters (Located Sources); Private and Public Letters (Unlocated Sources); Memoirs; Legal Documents; Defense of Vaca de Castro; "Causa Contra Barragan"; Personal Accounts; Unlocated Sources; Chapter 5: Chapter Influences; Specific Influences; General Influences; Character Sketches; Other General Influences

Formal InfluencesChapter 6: Speeches; Epideictic; Forensic; Deliberative; Speeches Given by Vaca de Castro; Chapter 7: Exploits; Battle of Chupas; Chapter 8: Methods and Purposes; The Prefaces; Defense of Vaca de Castro; The Divine in De Rebus Indicis; The Great Man; Morality (Fides); Civil War; Worthy of Memory; Bibliography; Index

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ISBN:

0-7734-1142-9

OCLC:

796384764