El Palentino
Diego Fernández de Palencia (c. 1520), called El Palentino, was a Spanish adventurer and historian of the 16th century. El Palentino was born at Palencia, he was educated for the church, but about 1545 he embarked for Peru, where he served in the royal army under Alonzo de Alvarado.
Also recorded as Diego Fernandez
El Palentino
- Born
- 1520 · Palencia.
- Died
- 1581 · Seville.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- explorer · historian · writer · chronicler
- Languages
- Spanish
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Diego Fernández de Palencia (c. 1520), called El Palentino, was a Spanish adventurer and historian of the 16th century. El Palentino was born at Palencia, he was educated for the church, but about 1545 he embarked for Peru, where he served in the royal army under Alonzo de Alvarado.
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Born at Palencia in 1520, died in Seville in 1581.
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- 1.Berg, G. La historiografía en el Perú: los cronistas y su influencia en la historia moderna.
- 2.Real Academia de la Historia. Diego Fernández de Palencia.
- 3.Gutiérrez, A. Los cronistas del Perú: La historia y sus narrativas.
- 4.Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Peru.
- 5.Adorno, R. La invención de América: La crónica de Indias como construcción cultural.
- 6.León-Portilla, M. Los cronistas y la conquista.
- 7.Cañizares-Esguerra, J. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Americas.
- 8.Armaza, P. Diego Fernández de Palencia: Un cronista del Perú.
- 9.Mignolo, W. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization.
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