{"product_id":"royal-commentaries-of-the-incas-garcilaso-de-la-vega-9781477300008","title":"Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two","description":"\u003cp\u003eGarcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important place in Spanish letters, Garcilaso was fiercely proud of his Indian ancestry and wrote under the name El Inca.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoyal Commentaries of the Incas\u003c\/i\u003e is the account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler. For the material in Part One of Royal Commentaries--the history of the Inca civilization prior to the arrival of the Spaniards--Garcilaso drew upon \"what I often heard as a child from the lips of my mother and her brothers and uncles and other elders . . . [of] the origin of the Inca kings, their greatness, the grandeur of their empire, their deeds and conquests, their government in peace and war, and the laws they ordained so greatly to the advantage of their vassals.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conventionalized and formal history of an oral tradition, \u003ci\u003eRoyal Commentaries\u003c\/i\u003e describes the gradual imposition of order and civilization upon a primitive and barbaric world. To this Garcilaso adds facts about the geography and the flora and fauna of the land; the folk practices, religion, and superstitions; the agricultural and the architectural and engineering achievements of the people; and a variety of other information drawn from his rich store of traditional knowledge, personal observation, or speculative philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImportant though it is as history, Garcilaso's classic is much more: it is also a work of art. Its gracious and graceful style, skillfully translated by Harold V. Livermore, succeeds in bringing to life for the reader a genuine work of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two covers the Spanish conquest of the Incas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Garcilaso de la Vega\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477300007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477300008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 2.12d","brand":"Garcilaso de la Vega","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057010471167,"sku":"9781477300008","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66f06028-24ea-47fd-b603-a87c55eb3b26.jpg?v=1685044511","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/royal-commentaries-of-the-incas-garcilaso-de-la-vega-9781477300008","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}