La Florida del ynca. Historia adelantado Hernando de Soto, governador y capitan general del reyno de la Florida, y de otros heroicos cavalleros españoles è indios
By: escrita por el ynca Garcilasso de la Vega, capitan de Su Magestad, natural de la gran ciudad del Cozco, cabeça de los reynos y provincias del Peru. Dirigida al serenissimo principe, duque de Bragança. &c.  Con licencía de la santa inquisicion.
Publisher: Impresso por P. Crasbeeck
Published: 1605
Place of publication: Lisbona
Language: spa
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Soto, Hernando de, ca. 1500-1542.
Notes: Cejador y Frauca, J.  Historia de la lengua y literatura castellana vol. 3
Medina, J.T.  Bib. hispano-americana vol. 2
Palau y Dulcet vol. 25, p. 402 (354790)
Privilege dated: 8. de março de 605.
"An extravagant romance, yet founded upon facts. Numbers and distances are magnified; and everything embellished with great boldness. His history is not without its value, but must be consulted with extreme caution"--Bancroft, Hist. of the U.S., ed. 1834, v. 1, p. 66.
"[Written] forty years after Soto's death, professedly to do his memory justice. The spirit of exaggeration which prevails throughout the volume has deprived it of esteem as an historical authority ... It is based upon conversations with a noble Spaniard who had accompanied Soto as a volunteer, and upon the written but illiterate reports of two common soldiers, Alonzo de Carmona, of Priego, and Juan Coles, of Zabra" -- Winsor, Nar. & crit. hist., v. 2, p. 290.
On the comparative trustworthiness of Garcilaso de la Vega, Biedma's narrative of De Soto's expedition and the "Relaçam verdadeira" of the knight of Elvas, see W.B. Rye's introduction to Hakluyt's translation of the latter, "The discovery and conquest of Terra Florida," Hakluyt Society publications, v. [9] 1851, p. xxviii-xxxv.
Numerous errors in paging.
LC copy imperfect: leaves 2-3 of the "Proemio al letor" wanting.