Garcilaso Between the World of the Incas and That of Renaissance Concepts

Abstract

The Spanish conquests of the Americas were not yet completed when famous Humanists already began to appear in the first generation of native-born Spanish-speaking Americans. A mestizo born in 1539 and who liked to call himself “the Indian whose mouth is full” thus published in 1590, in Madrid, the first-fruits of the Humanism of the New World. The son of an Indian woman, he succeeded in very unusual circumstances in writing a superb Castilian version of a classic work of Renaissance Neoplatonism. Its title reads: The Indian's translation of the three Dialogues of Love by Leone Ebreo, from Italian into Spanish, by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, a native of the great city of Cuzco, capital of the Kingdoms and provinces of Peru.

Los Comentarios reales de los incas: El credo católico como clave hermenéutica y el enfoque providencialista como mecanismo historiográfico

“…I, p. 19). 8 Por eso, aunque se vista y se alimente, rece, lea y escriba como un español renacentista (Durand, 1963), 9 el Inca posee un alma genuinamente mestiza, de la que se gloría:…”