Garcilaso de la Vega

I’ve done the same with the collected letters of Pedro Pizarro, the chronicles of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the “Historia general” of Bernardino de Sahagún, the outraged dispatches of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, the testimonies of indigenous and mestizo chroniclers.

At Libreria Alberto Casares, bookworms can gaze at a collection that includes a French translation of Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega from 1650 and Gregorian chants on papyrus dating back to 1722.

Her lecture will cover three Peruvian authors: Garcilaso de la Vega, the son of a Spanish noble and an Inca princess, who wrote the first novel about the Inca Empire; José María Arguedas, who wrote on the Quechua culture; and Mario Vargas Llosa, the first Peruvian to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

Now it is under the government of Viracocha that the Deluge is placed by the writers of very recent date, who mention this event, of which the native tradition was unknown to the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, to Montesinos, Balboa, Gomara, F. Oliva, and, in short, to all authorities of any weight in Peruvian matters.

Garcilaso de la Vega is a pure type of the grandee, Spain's Philip Sidney, a courtier, a soldier, a poet whose gift of song made him the idol of the nation, he is one of the alluring figures of history.