Garcilaso

Garcilaso, a Spanish historian, surnamed the Inca, from his mother, a princess of the royal race of the Incas, was son of Garcilaso de la Vega, one of the conquerors of Peru, and was born at Cuzco in 1540. At the age of twenty he proceeded to Spain, and lived the rest of his life at Cordova, where he died in 1616. His first work was La Florida del Ynea (1605), an account of the conquest of that country by Fernando de Soto. In 1609 appeared the first, and eight years later the second part of his great work on the history of Peru, entitled Commentarios Reales, que tratan del rēgen de los Incas reyes, que fueron del Perú. Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries was translated into English by Sir Paul Rycaut (1688), and by C. R. Markham for the Hakluyt Society (1869).