Note 21 — Chapter III · CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU
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Diego Fernández was known as Palentino. His history of Peru was reprinted by Odriozola in Lima in 1876. The second volume of the Colección de libros y documentos referentes a la historia del Perú contains a Relación de la conquista del Perú y hechos del Inca Manco II by Tito Cusi Yupangui, edited by Carlos A. Romero, Lima 1916. De rebus Indicis, by Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella, is one of the earliest writings in Latin on the Indies. Ercilla found it worthy of recommendation in these lines of La Araucana:
El coronista Estrella escribe al justo De Chile y del Pirú en latín la historia, Con tanta erudición, que será justo Que dure eternamente su memoria; Canto IV, Oct. 70.
Barros Arana in his Historia de Chile, vol. II, 267, n., regarded it of so little value that even if it had been completed and corrected it would have been hardly worth printing. The manuscript in incomplete form is in possession of the Academy of History of Madrid.
In the thirteenth volume of the Colección de libros españoles raros o curiosos appeared in 1879 a number of narratives dealing with South American affairs. The first is an account of the siege of Cuzco, and the second is an account of Girón’s rebellion.