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Item type:Publication, “People thought he was a Christian but he turned out to be a devil”: Protest and satire against Pedro de La Gasca in colonial Perú through Alonso de Medina (1549)(CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2024-06-30)The actions of Pedro de La Gasca after his victory against the rebel Gonzalo Pizarro provoked the anger of several inhabitants of the Peruvian viceroyalty who criticized an unjust distribution of grants that forgot many loyalists and rewarded several conquerors who had supported the Pizarro side. This article focuses on the writings of the soldier Alonso de Medina addressed to La Gasca to denounce this action and other facts. Medina’s work is of great interest for several reasons, not only because of the uncensored information he provides about these events and their protagonists, but also because it would constitute one of the first documented manifestations of Peruvian colonial sociopolitical satirical literature. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Greco-Roman Rhetoric and Historiography in the Second Part of Juan de Betanzos’ Narrative of the Incas(Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA), 2023-01-01)The present paper inquires on the influence of Classic Greco-Roman Historiography in the Second Part of the Narrative of the Incas. By means of an analysis of the rhetorical devises employed in the account of the Encounter in Cajamarca, it is proposed here that the author, Juan de Betanzos, followed closely the precepts established by Cicero and other ancient authorities for the proper writing of historic narratives or «histories».