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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

1539 - 1616

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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (12 April 1539 – 23 April 1616), born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there, where he lived and worked the rest of his life. The natural son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman born in the early years of the conquest, he is known primarily for his chronicles of Inca history, culture, and society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega has received more than 313,972 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Inca Garcilaso de la Vega is the 895th most popular writer (up from 983rd in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Peru (up from 21st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Peruvian Writer.

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega is most famous for his work "Comentarios Reales de los Incas" which is about the history of the Inca Empire.

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Notable Works

First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas
1871
The Incas
Agriculture and tax reform : opportunities for rural America : hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, April 5, 2017.
1961
Wahrhaftige Kommentare zum Reich der Inka
1609
Historia de la Florida
1803
La Florida del Inca
1709
The Florida of the Inca
History
Perhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition is the fact that, although it is easily the first great classic of American history, it had never before received a complete or otherwise adequate English translation in the 346 years which have elapsed since its publication in Spanish. Now the Inca's thrilling narrative comes into its own in the English speaking world. Hernando de Soto's expedition for the conquest of North America was the most ambitious ever to brave the perils of the New World. Garcilaso tells in remarkably rich detail of the conquistadors' wanderings over half a continent, of the unbelievable vicissitudes which beset them, of the Indians whom they sought to win for King and Church and by whose hands most of them died, of De Soto's death, and of the final pitiful failure of the expedition.
1605

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega ranks 895 out of 7,302. Before him are Julien Green, Silius Italicus, Kobayashi Issa, Hans Fallada, Tukaram, and Ben Jonson. After him are Eugène Scribe, Daniel Goleman, Roger Zelazny, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Appius Claudius Caecus, and Shoko Asahara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1539, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega ranks 1. After him are Federico Zuccari, Alessandro Valignano, Jost Amman, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Fausto Sozzini, Archduchess Barbara of Austria, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Chōsokabe Motochika, and George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Among people deceased in 1616, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega ranks 5. Before him are William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Vincenzo Scamozzi. After him are Maria Anna of Bavaria, Jacob Le Maire, Andreas Libavius, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Simeon Bekbulatovich, Magdalene of Brandenburg, and Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega ranks 18 out of 287. Before him are Túpac Amaru II (1738), Yma Sumac (1923), Manco Inca Yupanqui (1512), Martin de Porres (1579), Huáscar (1490), and Topa Inca Yupanqui (1441). After him are Viracocha Inca (1310), Teófilo Cubillas (1949), Abimael Guzmán (1934), Hilda Gadea (1925), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (1938), and Túpac Huallpa (1510).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega ranks 4. Before him are Mario Vargas Llosa (1936), Isabel Allende (1942), and Carlos Castaneda (1925). After him are César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), José María Arguedas (1911), Ricardo Palma (1833), Ciro Alegría (1909), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), and Alfredo Bryce (1939).

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