The Travels Of Pedro De Cieza De L On A D 1532 50 Contained In The First Part Of His Chronicle Of Peru

Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, from the 1554 Antwerp edition. Continued from another source in First Series 68. The supplementary material includes the 1864 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1864.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America and by looking at the translations of the Spanish chronicles as instrumental in the promotion of other European empires. The book discusses literary, religious and administrative documents and engages in a dialogue with other disciplines that can provide a more nuanced view of the role of translation, and of the mediators, during the controversial encounter/clash between Europeans and Amerindians.

This forms part of the original Book II of Cieza's 'Civil Wars of Peru', translated and edited. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 54. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1918.