{"product_id":"the-life-and-acts-of-don-alonzo-enriquez-de-guzman-a-knight-of-seville-of-the-order-of-santiago-a-d-1518-to-1543-translated-from-an-original-and-inedited-manuscript-in-the-national-library-at-madrid-with-notes-and-an-intro-paperback-9781108010702","title":"The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman: A Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543; Translated From an Original and Inedited Manuscript in the National Library at Madrid, With Notes a… (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108010702","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman: A Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTranslated From an Original and Inedited Manuscript in the National Library at Madrid, With Notes and an Introduction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume (1862) is the autobiography of a sixteenth-century Spanish nobleman who sought to make his fortune in Peru.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClements R. Markham (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108010702, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 August 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e204 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.27 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This sixteenth-century autobiographical narrative, translated in 1862 from a manuscript in the National Library of Madrid and interspersed with contemporary letters, is a self-justificatory account of the adventures of an impecunious Spanish nobleman whose efforts to make a fortune took him all round Europe and eventually to Peru, where he witnessed the feud between Pizarro and Almagro which had lasting consequences for the future of South America. An introductory essay places this account in the context of other histories of the Spanish conquest.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e To the reader\u003cbr\u003e Dedication\u003cbr\u003e 1. I begin life\u003cbr\u003e 2. How I set out, in the name of God\u003cbr\u003e 3. Of what happened to me in Barcelona\u003cbr\u003e 4. Of what happened to me in the expedition against the Moors\u003cbr\u003e 5. How they attacked the Moors\u003cbr\u003e 6. What happened to me afterwards\u003cbr\u003e 7. Of what happened to me in Naples\u003cbr\u003e 8. Of what happened to me in Rome and Cologne\u003cbr\u003e 9. Of what happened at Valenciennes\u003cbr\u003e 10. How I set out from Seville to go into banishment\u003cbr\u003e 11. What happened to me in Alicante, and on board the Venetian ship\u003cbr\u003e 12. What the emperor said in reply to the dispatch of the governor, and what happened afterwards\u003cbr\u003e 13. What happened to me afterwards\u003cbr\u003e 14. What happened to me at Majorca\u003cbr\u003e 15. How I went to Iviça\u003cbr\u003e 16. How we fared in the battle, and how I challenge Barbaroja\u003cbr\u003e 17. How I departed from the port in which I disembarked the soldiers\u003cbr\u003e 18. What happened to me in Seville\u003cbr\u003e 19. How, after I went to the court, I found the Marquis of Ayamonte, and all the grandees of the kingdom, who had been summoned by the emperor, at Valladolid\u003cbr\u003e and what happened afterwards\u003cbr\u003e 20. How I was presented to the emperor, and what happened respecting the recent affair at Seville\u003cbr\u003e 21. What passed with the emperor, our lord, when I went to give an account of the charge which he had entrusted to me, in the reduction of Majorca, and defence of Iviça\u003cbr\u003e 22. How I fared with the Residendencia\u003cbr\u003e and how I became a courtier, and went to Portugal\u003cbr\u003e 23. How I dined with the Infanta of Portugal\u003cbr\u003e 24. What afterwards befell me with the Emperor\u003cbr\u003e 25. The hostility of the Bishop of Oman, the King's confessor, against me\u003cbr\u003e 26. How the emperor was married, and the reward which his wife gave me\u003cbr\u003e 27. How I receive a pension\u003cbr\u003e 28. How I fared in my attempt to obtain the habit of Santiago\u003cbr\u003e 29. The emperor goes to Italy, and I am banished for trying to kill the accountant\u003cbr\u003e 30. What happened to me in my banishment\u003cbr\u003e 31. How I returned to court\u003cbr\u003e 32. How once more I departed from the court\u003cbr\u003e 33. The following letter was one which I wrote to another knight, named Pero Mexia\u003cbr\u003e 34. This is a letter which the Bishop of Escalas wrote to me\u003cbr\u003e 35. What happened to me after my return to Seville, and how I set out for the Indies\u003cbr\u003e 36. What happened to me on the ocean\u003cbr\u003e 37. What happened during the voyage to the Indies\u003cbr\u003e 38. I arrive at the island of Española, and afterwards I resolve to go to Peru\u003cbr\u003e 39. How I crossed the Isthmus of Panama\u003cbr\u003e 40. How I arrived in the land of Peru\u003cbr\u003e 41. Of the Indians of Peru, and of Atabalipa, who was killed by the Spaniards\u003cbr\u003e 42. I arrive at Piura, in the province of Peru, and afterwards go to the City of Kings\u003cbr\u003e 43. What happened to me in the principal city of Peru, which is now called the City of Kings, and of my first interview with his lordship the governor\u003cbr\u003e 44. How I departed from this city, which is called Lima in the language of the Indians, and by us the City of Kings, and came to the great city of Cuzco\u003cbr\u003e 45. Of the governor Francisco Pizarro\u003cbr\u003e 46. How the Virgin Mary helped us on her holy day\u003cbr\u003e 47. Diego Almagro arrives in Cuzco\u003cbr\u003e 48. Of what happened to myself principally\u003cbr\u003e 49. I have seen all things in the world, and for this I give all the praise to God alone, who is Sovereign Lord\u003cbr\u003e 50. Don Diego de Almagro encamps at Huaytara, and I write to the friar\u003cbr\u003e 51. What happened in the war between these two governors\u003cbr\u003e 52. How the governor sallied forth from the city of Cuzco\u003cbr\u003e 53. The death of the governor Don Diego de Almagro\u003cbr\u003e 54. I return to Spain, where I am imprisoned by the Royal Council of the Indies\u003cbr\u003e and how I receive favours from Prince Philip, our Lord\u003cbr\u003e 55. I arrive at Seville\u003cbr\u003e 56. The letter which I wrote to the emperor, as soon as he arrived in Spain\u003cbr\u003e 57. This is a letter which I wrote from Peru, to the most illustrius Duke of Medina Sidonia\u003cbr\u003e 58. 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