Primera parte, de las elegias de varones illvstres de Indias
By: Compuestas por Juan de Castellanos clerigo, beneficiado de la ciudad de Tunja en el nueuo reyno de Granada ...
Publisher: en casa de la viuda de A. Gomez
Published: 1589
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Spanish; Early works to 1800; Early accounts to 1600; Explorers; Biography
Other titles: Primera parte, de las elegías de varones illvstres de Indias; Elegias de varones ilustres de Indias
Description: This versified narrative, of which De Bry made use in partt 8 of his collection of voyages, begins with an account of Columbus and ends about 1560, with the expedition of Orsua and the crimes of Aguirre. The author, who had been a soldier in his youth, and according to his own statement had taken part in many of the battles of which he writes, became an ecclesiastic late in life.
Notes: Port. of J. de Castellanos on verso of p. 9. (Reproduced in Winsor, Nar. and crit hist., v. 2, p. 583)

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