Antonio de Berrío
Subtitle: la obsesión por El Dorado
By: estudio preliminar y selección documental de José Rafael Lovera.
Contributors: Lovera, José Rafael.
Series: Colección V centenario del encuentro entre dos mundos,1492-1992, 1498-1998
Publisher: Petróleos de Venezuela
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Caracas
Language: spa
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Berrío, Antonio de, 1526 or 7-1597; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618 -- Travel -- Guiana; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Sources; America -- Discovery and exploration -- English -- Sources; Guiana -- Description and travel; Guiana -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: "A collection of nearly 40 documents related to Berrío's governorship of Trinidad and his quest for El Dorado in central Venezuela (Guiana) in the 1580s and 1590s. Already in his 50s when he and his family migrated to the New World to assume the territorial and political legacy left him by his wife's uncle, the great New Granadan conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Berrío's late adult life illustrated the power of the El Dorado myth among Spaniards and Britons alike; Berrío and Walter Raleigh crossed swords in 1595 when the latter first sought the fabled area. Berrío's late career also demonstrates the continuation of the conquest era through late-16th century. Handsomely printed and nicely illustrated with reproductions of De Bry engravings"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-117).