Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two

by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important place in Spanish letters, Garcilaso was fiercely proud of his Indian ancestry and wrote under the name El Inca.

Royal Commentaries of the Incas is the account of the origin,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477300007
• ISBN13: 9781477300008
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 950 Pages
• Weight: 3.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"