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Castanheda was the natural son of a royal officer, who held the post of judge in Goa.In 1528, he accompanied his father to Portuguese India and to the Moluccas.There he remained ten years, from 1528 to 1538, during which he gathered as much information as he could about the discovery and conquest of India by the Portuguese, in order to write a book on the subject.
Chronica do Descobrimento e Conquista da Guiné (Paris, 1841; Eng. version by Edgar Prestage in 2 vols. issued by the Hakluyt Society, London, 1896-1899: The Chronicle of Discovery and Conquest of Guinea), Vol 1 online, English, Vol 2 online, English; Version of 1841, in Portuguese Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine copy
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of ...
Memorial to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in Medina del Campo, Spain. Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.
By the mid-1510s, Spanish settlements in the New World dotted only a few of the Antilles and some mainland coast in the southern Caribbean. [1] The generally-deprived conquistadors had yet to find that which had been promised them since the earliest Columbian voyages, namely, western maritime passage to the East Indies, Amerindians to force into encomienda or enslavement, and above all ...
"The discovery and conquest of Peru" translated with an introduction by J. M. Cohen - Harmondsworth, Middlesex - Penguin Books, 1968; Hampe Martínez, Teodoro (1991). Agustín de Zárate, contador y cronista indiano (Estudio biográfico). In: Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, tome 27-2, 1991. Epoque moderne. pp. 129–154;. In Spanish
The third part of Cieza de León's Crónicas del Perú, which examined the discovery and conquest of Peru by the Spaniards, was considered by historians to be lost. The document eventually turned up in a Vatican library, and historian Francesca Cantù published a Spanish version of the text in 1979.
The handwritten account is composed of 269 pages and contains his voyage to the New World, being followed by the history of the discovery and the conquest of America by the Spaniards. Another manuscript of the text is located in the India Office Library in London ( MS 719 ), and it is known that several manuscripts existed in the libraries of ...