Calvete de Estrella's De rebus indicis, a Latin history of the Spanish conquest of Peru
Subtitle: a study of classical influences and Spanish sources
By: Zebulun Q. Weeks ; with a foreword by Richard C. Lounsbury
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773426412
Subjects: History; Spanish; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biography of Juan Cristobal Calvete de Estrella; title: Purpose of book; title: Importance of De rebus indicis; title: Content of chapters; title: Sources of content: State of the question; title: Brief mentions of Calvete; title: Short biographical sketches; title: Scholarly introductions and articles; title: Plagiarism and De rebus indicis; title: Francisco Lopez de Gomara and Augustin de Zarate: Calvete's reasons for writing this history; title: Sources of the first four books; title: Francisco Lopez de Gomara; title: The unknown pilot; title: New lands or India?; title: Mutiny and malice; title: Methods; title: Augustin de Zarate; title: Pedro de Cieza de Leon and Pedro de la Gasca: Pedro Cieza de Leon; title: Perspicuitas; title: Pedro de la Gasca; title: Geographical excursus; title: Place names; title: Narrator and exornator; title: Sources of books five through seven: Cristobal Vaca de Castro; title: Private and public letters (located sources); title: Private and public letters (unlocated sources); title: Memoirs; title: Legal documents; title: Defense of Vaca de Castro; title: "Causa contra Barragan"; title: Personal accounts; title: Unlocated sources; title: Sources of form: Classical influences; title: Specific influences; title: General influences; title: Character sketches; title: Other general influences; title: Formal influences; title: Speeches: Epideictic; title: Forensic; title: Deliberative; title: Speeches given by Vaca de Castro; title: Exploits: Battle of Chupas; title: Death of Pizarro; title: Methods and purposes: The prefaces; title: Defense of Vaca de Castro; title: The divine in De rebus indicis; title: The great man; title: Morality (fides); title: War; title: Worthy of memory.