An edition of Calvete de Estrella's De rebus indicis, a Latin history of the Spanish conquest of Peru (2012)

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An edition of Calvete de Estrella's De rebus indicis, a Latin history of the Spanish conquest of Peru (2012)

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The Edwin Mellen Press
Language
English

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Subjects

History, Spanish, Discovery and exploration, Peru, history, to 1548, America, discovery and exploration, Spanish poetry, history and criticism

People

Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella (d. 1593)

Places

America, Peru

Times

Conquest, 1522-1548
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Calvete de Estrella's De rebus indicis, a Latin history of the Spanish conquest of Peru: a study of classical influences and Spanish sources
2012, The Edwin Mellen Press
in English

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lewiston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
985/.02
Library of Congress
F3442.C14 W44 2012, F3442.C14W44 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25238597M
ISBN 10
0773426418
ISBN 13
9780773426412
LCCN
2012007797

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