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Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian historian
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(gärs lä´s d lä v ´gä) (KEY) , 1539–1616, Peruvian historian; son of the Spanish conquistador Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega and an Incan princess and therefore called the Inca. He grew up in Peru during the turbulent post-Conquest period. He went (1560) to Spain, where he first served in the army and later began to write. His most important work, The Royal Commentaries of Peru (1609–1617; tr. 1871) is a valuable source of information about the conquest of Peru and the lives and legends of the Inca.
See biography by J. G. Varner (1968).
See biography by J. G. Varner (1968).
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