{"id":3421,"date":"2021-09-28T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:35","slug":"the-royal-commentaries-of-the-incas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/library\/the-royal-commentaries-of-the-incas\/","title":{"rendered":"ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF THE INCAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Royal Commentaries of the Incas<\/em> (1609, 1617) by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) is probably the most influential history of the New World ever written. \u00a0It circulated widely in Spanish and was translated to several European languages. <em>The Royal Commentaries<\/em> is an exegetical history or commentary that mimics and twists the Old World historical genre called the \u2018Book of the Kings\u2019 and, later, the \u2018Mirror of the Prince.\u2019\u00a0 It does so to create a new genre called the \u2018Book of the Incas, Kings of Peru\u2019 and the \u2018Mirror of the Inca.\u2019 This Inca mirror is in truth the mirror of its author, Inca Garcilaso, in the sense that it is a reflection of his own, mestizo gesture, written in Andalusian exile, to become the authentic &#8216;Inca&#8217; voice that will interpret, for Peruvian and global posterity, the meaning of the Inca past. Inca Garcilaso\u00b4s work guided not only &#8220;the arts of rule&#8221; in viceregal Peru but also Enlightenment thought on how to &#8220;legislate&#8221; justly by respecting natural law. Graphic proof of this impact on the Enlightenment is the frontispiece of the French translation of 1737, published in Amsterdam.\u00a0 The image presents the founders of Inca Empire described in <em>The Royal Commentaries<\/em>, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, now as mythic models of a universal civilizing mission led by the French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Commentaries of the Incas (1609, 1617) by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) is probably the most influential history of the New World ever written. \u00a0It circulated widely in Spanish and was translated to several European languages. The Royal Commentaries is an exegetical history or commentary that mimics and twists the Old World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4142,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/4142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}