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With another servant, Garcilaso had a second son, Diego de Vargas, born in , who helped his father copy the Royal Commentaries and survived him until at least De la Vega entered Spanish military service in and fought in the Alpujarras against the Moors after the Morisco Revolt. He received the rank of captain for his services to the Crown. He received a first-rate but informal European education in Spain after he moved there at age His works are considered to have great literary value and are not simple historical chronicles.
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He wrote from an important perspective, as his maternal family were the ruling Inca. He portrays the Inca as benevolent rulers who governed a country where everybody was well-fed and happy before the Spanish came. Having learned first-hand about daily Inca life from his maternal relatives, he was able to convey that in his writings. As an adult, he also gained the perspective to describe accurately the political system of tribute and labor enforced by the Incas from the subsidiary tribes in their empire.
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Baptized and reared as Christian, he portrayed Incan religion and the expansion of its empire from a viewpoint influenced by his upbringing. It is unknown whether that was an effort to portray his Inca ancestors in a more positive light to a Spanish audience or his ignorance of the practice having lived most of his life in Spain.
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The work was published in Lisbon in and became popular. It describes the expedition according to its own records and information Garcilaso gathered during the years. He defended the legitimacy of imposing the Spanish sovereignty in conquered territories and submitting them to Christian jurisdiction.
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At the same time, he expresses and defends the dignity, the courage, and the rationality of the Native Americans. It was translated and published in English in Historians have identified problems with using La Florida as an historical account. Milanich and Charles M. Hudson warn against relying on Garcilaso, noting serious problems with the sequence of events and location of towns in his narrative.
They say that "some historians regard Garcilaso's La Florida to be more a work of literature than a work of history. It was based on stories and oral histories told by his Inca relatives when he was a child in Cusco. The Comentarios have two sections and volumes.
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The first was primarily about Inca life. The second, about the Spanish conquest of Peru , was published in The book was not printed again in the Americas until , but copies continued to be circulated secretly. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For people with similar names, see Garcilaso de la Vega disambiguation. For the South American empire, see Inca Empire. For other uses, see Inca disambiguation. Cusco , New Castile current Peru. Charles Scribner's Sons