Agustín de Zárate
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Agustín de Zárate was a Spanish colonial, Contador general de cuentas, civil servant, chronicler and historian. His work Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú recounts the first years after
Cover of the first edition, 1555
Cover of the 1577 edition
Francisco Pizarro
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Francisco Pizarro, 1st Marquess of the Conquest, was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
Agustín de Zárate
…were “taken without keeping in them the style and form and good order” so that he decided to undertake anew the examination of all the records since Francisco Pizarro's conquest expedition some 15 years before. According to a note by Anton Nieto - Zárate's secretary - the officials of the king and the people who…
Portrait by Amable-Paul Coutan, 1835
Francisco Pizarro's route of exploration during the conquest of Peru (1531–1533)
Pizarro and his followers in Lima in 1535
Pizarro meets with the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, 1532