MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 120223s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aF3442.C14$bW44 2012
082 00 $a985/.02$223
100 1 $aWeeks, Zebulun Q.
245 10 $aCalvete de Estrella's De rebus indicis, a Latin history of the Spanish conquest of Peru :$ba study of classical influences and Spanish sources /$cZebulun Q. Weeks ; with a foreword by Richard C. Lounsbury.
260 $aLewiston :$bThe Edwin Mellen Press,$c2012.
263 $a1208
300 $apages. cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aBiography 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.
600 10 $aCalvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal,$dd. 1593.$tDe rebus Indicis.
651 0 $aPeru$xHistory$yConquest, 1522-1548.
651 0 $aAmerica$xDiscovery and exploration$xSpanish.