I've known about the 16th century Spanish/Peruvian writer and historian Garcilaso de la Vega since I was in graduate school, lo these many years ago. But until I started researching Hernando de Soto, I was not aware that there were two Garcilasos.
Personal coat of arms for Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. His Spanish ancestry is represented on the right side, by the symbols for his family, the Vargas, Figueroa, Sotomayor and Laso de la Vega; on the left side are symbols of Inca royalty: the two-headed serpent, the rainbow, the tasseled crown, the sun and the moon.
The Garcilaso de la Vega of interest to archaeologists and scholars of the Incan and Mississippian cultures grew up in the Inca capital city of Cuzco, the child of a Spanish conquistador and a member of the Incan royal family. The other Garcilaso de la Vega, born just 35 years earlier, was an influential poet credited with bringing the Renaissance to Spain, as our guide to Spanish literature tells us.
- Read more about Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
- Or, read more about Garcilaso de la Vega, from Crystal Honores, guide to Spanish literature (in Spanish)
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