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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weeks, Zebulun Q.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
Temas:
Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal, > 1510-1593. > De rebus Indicis.
1522-1548
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Discoveries in geography > Spanish
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Latin America.
Peru > History > Conquest, 1522-1548.
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
Pérou > Histoire > 1522-1548 (Conquête)
Amérique > Découverte et exploration espagnoles.
America
Peru
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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