PIZARRO Y ORELLANA, Fernando.

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.The first and only edition, in English binding, of this glorification of the Spanish Conquest of the New World a treasure trove of historical historic and sociocultural information, and an interesting piece of propaganda. This work contains biographies of Columbus, Alonso de Ojeda, Cortez, the four Pizarros, Diego de Almagro, and Diego Garcia de Paredes, in which the treachery and brutality of the conquerors in the treatment of the Indians is palliated and defended (Sabin). Printed on poor quality paper the text is often oxidised, but not in this case.. . ..Fernando Pizarro y Orellana was professor of law at Salamanca and appointed minister of the Counsel of Castile by Philip IV. He claims here to be the grandson of the greatly celebrated conquistador Francisco Pizarro. In the appended discurso legal , he reminds the King of the grants promised by his predecessors to Pizarro s ancestors, as a reward for the riches brought about by the conquest. After several prefaces, preambles, privileges and prefatory letters all intended to give weight to what is to follow the work opens with probably the longest (40pp.) biography of Columbus then printed. His discovery was seen as the start of a successful conquest which was not only just, but had also been foreseen and prophesized . It recounts how Columbus convinced Ferdinand and Isabella to fund his enterprise and his several voyages, with the addition of observations by Pizarro himself, which include a variety of anecdotes such as th

• Binding: Hardcover

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