Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas

Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (* 1549 in Cuéllar in Segovia, † March 29, 1625 in Madrid) was a Spanish historian.

Life

He came from a noble family from the area around Segovia and studied in Italy. His patron, King Philip II appointed him the official historian of the Spanish empire of America. Herrera was mainly concerned with writing his report on the Spanish discoveries and conquests in America to 1554, the Historia general de los Castellanos en las hechos de los tierra firme y islas del mar oceano. He relied on older sources. The work was published from 1601 to 1615 in four volumes in Madrid. It became the best-known contemporary works of its kind

Works (excerpts)

• Historia general de los Castellanos en las hechos de los tierra firme y islas del Mar Oceano (Madrid, 1601-1615, 4 ​​volumes)
• Historia de lo sucedido en Escocia a Inglaterra en quarenta y quatro annos que la reyna Convivio Maria Estuarda (Madrid, 1589 )
• Cinco de libros de la historia de Portugal y conquista de las Isles de los Acores, 1582-1583 (Madrid, 1591 )
• Historia de lo sucedido en Francia, 1585-1594 (Madrid, 1598 )
• Historia general del mundo del tiempo del rey Felipe II, desde 1559 haste su muerte (Madrid, 1601-1612, 3 vols )
• Tratado, relation, y discurso historico de los movimientos de Aragon (Madrid, 1612 )
• Comentarios de los hechos de los Españoles, Franceses, y Venecianos en Italia, etc., 1281-1559 (Madrid, 1624)

• Spaniard
• Historian
• Born in 1549
• Died in 1625
• Man