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Title Los pre-textos de La Florida del Inca, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / edición crítica, estudio preliminar y notas de José Miguel Martínez Torrejón
Published Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Department of Romance Studies, 2021
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press

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Description 1 online resource
Series North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; number 319
North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 319.
Contents Los pre-textos de La Florida del Inca -- Epítome del descubrimiento de la tierra de la Florida -- La historia de los sucesos de la Florida del adelantado Hernando de Soto
Summary "In the long process that led to the publication of La Florida del Inca (Lisbon, 1605), we can presume the existence of several pre-texts: manuscript copies of preliminary or partial versions. The only such documents discovered to date, two summaries of the completed but still handwritten work (c. 1596-1600), are published here as critical editions accompanied by a historical-philological study. The first text, entitled Epítome del descubrimiento de la tierra de la Florida, comes from a manuscript recently discovered at the Hispanic Society of America in New York. It is a summary dictated to a clerk by Garcilaso himself shortly after 1596, when the possibilities of publishing his work, completed around 1592, were difficult due to lack of political and economic patronage. The second text, entitled Historia de los sucesos de la Florida del adelantado Hernando de Soto, is much more extensive than the first. The study of its additions and errors reveals that is not a primitive version of La Florida, as was believed, but rather that it is a summary prepared by the chronicler Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas from a copy of the manuscript with the aim of plagiarizing its content, something he eventually did in his work, Décadas. The joint presentation of both pre-texts is an uncommon achievement in the history of Spanish prose which, beyond the microhistory of La Florida, sheds light on the complicated processes of the publication of Spanish classics"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616. Florida del Inca.
SUBJECT Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616. Florida del Inca
Florida del Inca (Vega, Garcilaso de la) fast
Subject Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Sources
Discoveries in geography -- Spanish
Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples
SUBJECT Florida -- History -- To 1565 -- Sources
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Sources
Subject America
Florida
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, 1559-1625
ISBN 9781469665955
1469665956