Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there, wh
Portrait of Garcilaso de la Vega, engraved by Carlos Penoso, 1879
Statue of Garcilaso in Villa Borghese gardens, Rome
House of Garcilaso de la Vega in Cusco, Peru, in 1877
House of Garcilaso in Montilla, during his time in Spain
Blas Valera
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Blas Valera was a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order in Peru, a historian, and a linguist. The son of a Spaniard and an Andean woman, he was one of the first mestizo priests in Peru. He wrote a
Three signatures of Blas Valera (private collection, C. Miccinelli - Naples (Italy))