El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno is a Peruvian chronicle finished around 1615. Its author, the indigenous Peruvian Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, sent it as a handwritten manuscript to King Phil
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Sancayhuasi, jail of the Incas, an illustration from the book
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Philip III of Spain
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Philip III was King of Spain and Portugal during the period known as the Iberian Union, reigning from 1598 until his death in 1621. He was also King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Milan, and Lord of th
El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
…Peruvian chronicle finished around 1615. Its author, the indigenous Peruvian Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, sent it as a handwritten manuscript to King Philip III of Spain. His purpose was to give a historical account of the Andes from the earliest human beings to the Incas and the Spanish conquest; it was also meant as…
Portrait by Andrés López Polanco, c. 1617
Portrait by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, c. 1603
Philip III of Spain
Portrait of the Duke of Lerma by Rubens