Garcilaso de la Vega, "El Inca":

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LA FLORIDA DEL INCA. HISTORIA DEL ADELANTADO, HERNANDO DE SOTO, GOVERNADOR, Y CAPITAN GENERAL DEL REINO DE LA FLORIDA. Y DE OTROS HEROICOS CABELLEROS, ESPAÑOLES, E ... The second edition of Garcilaso de la Vega's great work on De Soto and the natives of Florida, edited by Andres G. Barcia, as a companion to his Ensayo Cronologico..., which is also present here. The very rare first edition of "El Inca's" history appeared in two issues in Lisbon in 1605. The author, an extraordinary half-Incan historian, obtained a great portion of the material contained in this work directly from a member of De Soto's ill-fated expedition, as well as from two manuscripts of unquestioned authority written by two other members of the expedition. Although for a period of the 19th century Garcilaso de la Vega's three great works on the conquests of Peru and Florida were subject to skepticism on the part of some historians, time and further scholarship have established their authenticity, and this publication is now regarded as one of the primary works on the events with which it deals."One of the major accounts of the travels of De Soto in Florida and throughout the present day Southeastern United States...the Inca's work remains the major literary by-product of this historic invasion...[the first edition] has earned the distinction of being the first work published by a native-born American author" - Servies.Barcia's essay is a companion piece to the second edition of La Florida del Inca; this co

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