Calvete de Estrella's De rebus indicis, a Latin history of the Spanish conquest of Peru a study of classical influences and Spanish sources /
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 docu...
| Основен автор: | Weeks, Zebulun Q. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2012.
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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. |
Съдържание:
- 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.