Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
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Spanish chronicler
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Why Is Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , 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. His work was widely read in Europe, influential and well received. It was the first literature by an author born in the Americas to enter the western canon.
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