Diego Fernández de Palencia
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Diego Fernández de Palencia (c. 1520 – c. 1581), called El Palentino, was a Spanish
adventurer and historian
of the 16th century.
Born at
Francisco Hernandez Giron, of the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro, and of the administration of Pedro de la Gasca. The whole work, under the title Primera y segunda parte de la Historia del Piru, was published at Seville in 1571 and was dedicated to King Philip II. It is written in a clear and intelligible style, and with more art than is usual in the compositions of the time. It gives copious details, and, as he had access to the correspondence and official documents of the Spanish leaders, it is, although necessarily possessing bias, the fullest and most authentic record existing of the events it relates.[1]
A notice of the work will be found in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru (new ed., London, 1902).[1]
See also
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
- Fray Martín de Murúa
References
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fernandez, Diego". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 279.
Further reading
- Fuentes, Ventura (1909). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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