Garcilaso de la Vega (chronicler)
El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega ( "El Inca "; * 1539 in Cuzco, Peru, Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, † April 23, 1616 in Córdoba ( Spain) ) was a Peruvian writer and renowned chronicler of the history of the Incas and the conquest Peru by the Spaniards.
Life
El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was the son of the Spanish conquistador Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega and a niece of Huayna Capac Inca ruler ( Wayna Qhapaq ), Isabel Suárez Chimpu Ocllo ( Chimpu Uqllu ). He grew up in constant contact with his mother in his father's house with Quechua and Spanish bilingual and enjoyed in Cuzco along with direct descendants of the Inca ruler and illegitimate sons of the first conquistadors an excellent education.
After the death of his father he went to Spain in 1560 to demand there prerogatives, in his opinion, as a son of the first conquistadors generation belonging to the Spanish nobleman who had been in Cuzco even Corregidor, was available to him. However, this was rejected due to its alleged participation in the decisive battle directed against the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro crown.
He never returned to the Viceroyalty of Peru and wrote his major work from memory as well as the basis of information that he caught up with living in Peru acquaintances. For reasons that never became clear, he changed several times his name and finally stopped at El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, his father's name with his background maternal combining, even though he knew that Inca was only allowed to call who direct in the male line from the dynasty originated. In 1570 he joined the Spanish army and rose to the rank of captain. He took part in the suppression of the Moriskenaufstands ( 1568-1571 ).
El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died April 23, 1616 at the age of 77 years, on the same day as Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Works
His first literary work was the translation of the " Dialogues d' amore " of Leon Hebreo from Italian, which was published in 1590 in Madrid. 1605 appeared " La Florida del Inca ," where he describes the expedition of Hernando del Soto to Florida, and only in 1609 was in Lisbon, the first part of his major work, the " Comentarios Reales de los Incas " out. His concern was the Spanish reader through the history of the Incas from their mythical origins to the victory of Atahualpa ( Atawallpa ) on his half-brother Huascar ( Waskar ) nearly bring the Andean reality. The book ends with the death of the legitimate from the perspective of Garcilaso Inca Huascar and the following carnage wreaked Atahualpa among his relatives and followers on the eve of the conquest of the empire by the Spaniards.
The second book " Historia general del Perú " appeared in 1617 in Córdoba, and reports of the conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro. It ends with the execution of the last Inca Tupac Amaru ( Tupaq Amaru ) by the Viceroy Francisco de Toledo in 1572 in Cuzco and the return of Toledo Spain.
At the time of the rebellion of José Gabriel Condorcanqui in the eighteenth century, the publication of the book in Lima by Charles III was. prohibited on the basis of his "dangerous" content. The book was printed on the American continent for the first time in 1918, though individual copies were in circulation before.
Honor
The stadium in Cuzco ( Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega ) was named after him in 1950.