description: Several decades after the fall of the Inca Empire, a native Andean from the area of Huamanga in the southern Peruvian Andes wrote to King Philip III. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's aim was to seek the reform of Spanish colonial governance in order to save the Andean peoples from the destructive forces of colonial exploitation, disease and miscegenation. Finding his most persuasive medium to be the visual image, he organized his 1200-page Nueva cornica y buen gobierno around his nearly 400 drawings, all skillfully executed by his own hand. A facsimile of the autograph manuscript at The Royal Library in Copenhagen, Gks 2232 40, was published in 2001 on the Guaman Poma website of The Royal Library, www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/. This CD-ROM of the manuscript includes, in English and in Spanish, a chapter-by-chapter table of contents of the manuscript and a descriptive list of the nearly 400 drawings.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Felipe Guaman Poma De Ayala: El Primer Neuva Coronica Y Buen Gobierno (Peru 1615)
titlecomplete: Felipe Guaman Poma De Ayala: El Primer Neuva Coronica Y Buen Gobierno (Peru 1615) (Spanish Edition)
publisher: Museum Tusculanum