Friday, February 26, 2010
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BIOGRAPHY Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso Inca
(Garcilaso de la Vega, called El Inca, Cuzco, Peru Current, 1539 - Cordoba, Spain, 1616) Peruvian writer and historian. He was the son of English conquistador Sebastian Garcilaso de la Vega and the Inca princess Isabel Chimpo Ocllo. Thanks to the privileged position of his father, who belonged to the faction of Francisco Pizarro until it went to the side of Viceroy La Gasca, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega received a thorough education in Cuzco next to the children of Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, as he mixed and illegitimate.
At age twenty he moved to Spain, where he continued his military career. With the rank of captain, participated in the repression of the Moriscos of Granada, and later fought in Italy, where he met Leon Hebreo Neoplatonic philosopher.
In 1590, most likely hurt by the low esteem in which he was held in the army for being a mestizo, surrendered their weapons and entered into religion. Humanistic circles frequented Seville and Cordoba Montilla and rolled in the study of history and reading of classical and Renaissance poets. The result of those readings was the Italian translation of the Inca Garcilaso's Dialogues made love, Leon Hebreo, which was released in Madrid the same year of retirement. Following
humanistic trends in fashion, the Inca Garcilaso launched an ambitious and original project centered historiography American past, especially in Peru. Considered the father of the letters of the continent, in 1605 in Lisbon announced his History of Florida and that day she became the Governor Hernando de Soto, a title that was synthesized in Florida of the Inca. The book contains a chronicle of the expedition of that conqueror, in accordance with stories that he collected for years, and defends the legitimacy to impose sovereignty in those territories English for submission to the jurisdiction Christian.
The most celebrated title of the Inca Garcilaso, however, were the real reviews, the first part of which appeared in 1609, also in Lisbon. Written from his own childhood and youth, epistolary contacts and visits to notable figures of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the story is, despite the problems of oral and written sources and the inconsistencies of many dates, one of the attempts most successful, both conceptually and stylistically, of keeping the memory the traditions of Andean civilization. For this reason it is considered his masterpiece and has been recognized as the starting point for Latin American literature. The second part was published in Cordoba in 1617.
At age twenty he moved to Spain, where he continued his military career. With the rank of captain, participated in the repression of the Moriscos of Granada, and later fought in Italy, where he met Leon Hebreo Neoplatonic philosopher.
In 1590, most likely hurt by the low esteem in which he was held in the army for being a mestizo, surrendered their weapons and entered into religion. Humanistic circles frequented Seville and Cordoba Montilla and rolled in the study of history and reading of classical and Renaissance poets. The result of those readings was the Italian translation of the Inca Garcilaso's Dialogues made love, Leon Hebreo, which was released in Madrid the same year of retirement. Following
humanistic trends in fashion, the Inca Garcilaso launched an ambitious and original project centered historiography American past, especially in Peru. Considered the father of the letters of the continent, in 1605 in Lisbon announced his History of Florida and that day she became the Governor Hernando de Soto, a title that was synthesized in Florida of the Inca. The book contains a chronicle of the expedition of that conqueror, in accordance with stories that he collected for years, and defends the legitimacy to impose sovereignty in those territories English for submission to the jurisdiction Christian.
The most celebrated title of the Inca Garcilaso, however, were the real reviews, the first part of which appeared in 1609, also in Lisbon. Written from his own childhood and youth, epistolary contacts and visits to notable figures of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the story is, despite the problems of oral and written sources and the inconsistencies of many dates, one of the attempts most successful, both conceptually and stylistically, of keeping the memory the traditions of Andean civilization. For this reason it is considered his masterpiece and has been recognized as the starting point for Latin American literature. The second part was published in Cordoba in 1617.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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LIBERTADOR SIMON BOLIVAR
BIOGRAPHY AND DRAWING OF SIMON BOLIVAR
Featured military and statesman Simon Bolivar is undoubtedly one of the greatest figures in American history. His skills as a strategist contributed decisively to achieve freedom of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Bolivia and Peru from English rule.
Born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, lost his parents at an early age. At age 16, his tutor, Simon Rodriguez, sent him to Europe, where he completed his education.
On his return he joined the patriot movement took Caracas, in 1810, and assumed an active role in political life as a member of the Patriotic Society that promoted the independence of Venezuela. This would be consolidated in 1813. Bolivar received the title of Liberator, doomed then to the supreme task of the emancipation of America. After a period
in exile, returned to the mainland in 1817 and joined the struggle for the independence of New Granada, who said after the battle of Boyacá on August 6, 1819. After this victory he proclaimed the Republic of Colombia. In September 1823 at Callao, and days later, by Congress, took charge of the final stage of liberation struggle in Peru, which ended with the triumph of Junín and Ayacucho in 1824. Months later, issued a decree for the creation of a new state, in his honor, is named Bolivia, separating the old Viceroyalty of Upper Peru. The Liberator died on December 17, 1830 in Santa Marta, Colombia.
Author: Percy Cayo Córdoba
BIOGRAPHY OF SIMON BOLIVAR
BIOGRAPHY AND DRAWING OF SIMON BOLIVAR
Featured military and statesman Simon Bolivar is undoubtedly one of the greatest figures in American history. His skills as a strategist contributed decisively to achieve freedom of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Bolivia and Peru from English rule.
Born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, lost his parents at an early age. At age 16, his tutor, Simon Rodriguez, sent him to Europe, where he completed his education.
On his return he joined the patriot movement took Caracas, in 1810, and assumed an active role in political life as a member of the Patriotic Society that promoted the independence of Venezuela. This would be consolidated in 1813. Bolivar received the title of Liberator, doomed then to the supreme task of the emancipation of America. After a period
in exile, returned to the mainland in 1817 and joined the struggle for the independence of New Granada, who said after the battle of Boyacá on August 6, 1819. After this victory he proclaimed the Republic of Colombia. In September 1823 at Callao, and days later, by Congress, took charge of the final stage of liberation struggle in Peru, which ended with the triumph of Junín and Ayacucho in 1824. Months later, issued a decree for the creation of a new state, in his honor, is named Bolivia, separating the old Viceroyalty of Upper Peru. The Liberator died on December 17, 1830 in Santa Marta, Colombia.
Author: Percy Cayo Córdoba
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