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1 online resource (326 pages) |
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Biography of Juan Cristobal Calvete de Estrella -- Purpose of book -- Importance of De rebus indicis -- Content of chapters -- Sources of content: State of the question -- Brief mentions of Calvete -- Short biographical sketches -- Scholarly introductions and articles -- Plagiarism and De rebus indicis -- Francisco Lopez de Gomara and Augustin de Zarate: Calvete's reasons for writing this history -- Sources of the first four books -- Francisco Lopez de Gomara -- The unknown pilot -- New lands or India? -- Mutiny and malice -- Methods -- Augustin de Zarate -- 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 -- Sources of books 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 -- Sources of form: Classical influences -- Specific influences -- General influences -- Character sketches -- Other general influences -- Formal influences -- Speeches: Epideictic -- Forensic -- Deliberative -- Speeches given by Vaca de Castro -- Exploits: Battle of Chupas -- Death of Pizarro -- Methods and purposes: The prefaces -- Defense of Vaca de Castro -- The divine in De rebus indicis -- The great man -- Morality (fides) -- War -- Worthy of memory |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal, 1510-1593. De rebus Indicis
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Discoveries in geography -- Spanish
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Regions & Countries - Americas.
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History & Archaeology.
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Latin America.
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Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100205
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America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004256
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America
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Peru
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773411425 |
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0773411429 |
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