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Widely read and translated, Garcilaso is a key figure for understanding the development of mestizo culture in Latin America and his works have sparked many heated debates. This new collection of articles advances that discussion through contributions by twelve distinguished scholars who review central aspects of Garcilaso's life and work from the perspectives of history, linguistics, literary theory, and anthropology. These essays explore the complex intertextual threads which weave through Garcilaso's principal writings. Some examine the relationship of his work with the canon of European historiography, while others stress its link with Andean culture; still others focus on the puzzles presented by his use of self-representation. Many of the articles offer fresh readings of Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries and include not only textual analyses of key themes but also a reassessment of Inca political organization. Other contributions address his Florida of the Inca, focusing on such aspects as its discourse and dating. Together, all the essays demonstrate that Garcilaso scholarship continues to be receptive to new critical approaches.

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Publié par	University of Notre Dame Press
Date de parution	22 mai 1998
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780268045531
Langue	English
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Garcilaso Inca de la Vega
Jos Durand (1925-1990)
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega
AN AMERICAN HUMANIST
A Tribute to Jos Durand
Edited by
JOS ANAD N
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, IN 46556
All Rights Reserved
Copyright 1998 by University of Notre Dame Published in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega : an American humanist : a tribute to Jos Durand / Jos Anad n, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-268-01182-6 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 0-268-01037-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616. I. Durand, Jos II. Anad n, Jos
F3444.G3G37 1998
861 .3-dc21
97-21481
CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
ISBN 9780268045531
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CONTENTS
Preface
JOS ANAD N
In Remembrance of Jos Durand
AURELIO MIR -QUESADA SOSA
Introduction
JOS A. RODR GUEZ GARRIDO
1. The Incas and Rome
SABINE MACCORMACK
2. Garcilaso s Historical Approach to the Incas
FRANKLIN PEASE G. Y .
3. The Self-Baptism of Garcilaso Inca
JUAN BAUTISTA AVALLE-ARCE
4. The Problematic Representation of Viracocha in the Royal Commentaries , and Why Garcilaso Bears and Deserves the Title of Inca
PIERRE DUVIOLS
5. The Virgin Mary and the Possibility of Conciliation of Distinctive Cultural Traditions in the General History of Per
CARMELA ZANELLI
6. Garcilaso Inca and the Tradition of Viri Illustres (Dedication and Prologue of the Royal Commentaries , Part II)
JOS A. RODR GUEZ GARRIDO
7. Garcilaso and the Origins of Garcilacism: The Role of the Royal Commentaries in the Development of a Peruvian National Imaginaire
JOS ANTONIO MAZZOTTI
8. Goths and Turks and the Representation of Pagans and Infidels in Garcilaso and Ercilla
EFRA N KRISTAL
9. The Concept of General Language in Garcilaso Inca
RODOLFO CERR N-PALOMINO
10. The Discourse on Exemplarity in Garcilaso de la Vega s La Florida del Inca
EDUARDO HOPKINS-RODR GUEZ
11. A New and Unpublished Manuscript of Garcilaso s Florida
MIGUEL MATICORENA ESTRADA
12. History As Autobiography in Garcilaso Inca
JOS ANAD N
Appendix A: Debating Garcilaso
Appendix B: The Inca of Durand: Annotated Bibliography on Garcilaso Inca and Other Topics in the Work of Jos Durand
PAUL P. FIRBAS
Works Cited
Contributors
Index of Names
JOS ANAD N
PREFACE
T HE PRESENT VOLUME ASSEMBLES a series of essays presented at the colloquium on Garcilaso Inca de la Vega which was held at the University of Notre Dame from March 31 to April 2, 1996. Some articles were added from an earlier symposium on Garcilaso which took place in May 1995 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Per . The event at Notre Dame was organized to honor the memory of Jos Durand, one of the leading garcilacistas of his time, and to commemorate the acquisition by Notre Dame of his impressive library of rare books and manuscripts, one of the finest private collections of this century.
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega (1539-1616), the first renowned mestizo humanist of Latin America, was born in Cuzco, Per , the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca princess. When he was twenty years old he traveled to Spain, never to return to the land of his birth. His long sojourn in southern Spain, however, never obscured the memories of his Indian past. He kept abreast of events in Per by corresponding with people there and talking frequently with travelers returning from the Americas. Nevertheless, Garcilaso s first book was not about the New World, but about the European Renaissance, namely a translation into Spanish (1590) of Leon Hebreo s Dialoghi d Amore , an influential treatise of Neoplatonic thought derived from Marsilio Ficino.
His next three books decisively established Garcilaso as a major figure in the Renaissance and one of the foremost initiators of Latin American letters. His beautifully written The Florida of the Inca (1605) was a seminal work on the conquest of Florida and the southern regions of the United States. It was followed by his Royal Commentaries , published in two parts, the first (1609) dealing with the Inca world, and the second (1617) with the Spanish conquest and initial years of the Spaniards in Per .
Garcilaso is a key figure for understanding the development of the mestizo culture of Latin America. His life and his works embody the fusion of two different cultures. In his writings-considered to be models of sixteenth-century Spanish prose-he endeavored to harmonize his Inca and his Spanish heritages. His life and times were, however, clouded by tragedies. Not only did he lose both of his parents relatively early in his life, but the two worlds he knew as a child and youth ceased to exist. The remnants of the Inca Empire were brutally destroyed, and the world of the first-generation conquistadors had disappeared forever. The goals and methods of the Spanish colonial machinery were ruthlessly implanted by Viceroy Francisco de Toledo. Garcilaso thus tried in his writings to recapture two utterly lost worlds: his mother s and his father s. Furthermore, as a humanist historian, he also advanced an interpretation of those events which even today influences our historical understanding of that period. Widely read, translated, and the cause of many a heated debate from his own time to the present, he has always been a source of inspiration and reflection. Significantly, he is the first writer to envision the future of Latin America as a multiethnic continent where many races could and would live together in harmony. This message has resounded clearly throughout the ages, and was the inspiration behind the rebellion of the Second T pac Amaru against the Spaniards in the eighteenth century, an armed insurgency that took place forty years before Bolivar proclaimed the independence of Per . Garcilaso s message also influenced the leaders of the Latin American wars of independence well into the nineteenth century. Even today his ideas reverberate in relation to the current efforts toward multiculturalism, integration, and coexistence of Hispanic and Anglo heritages. Garcilaso Inca is thus an important bridge between the Western and pre-Columbian cultures, a person who can only be understood as belonging to both worlds, and a visionary prophet concerning the future reality of the Americas.
With this publication we honor the memory of Professor Jos Durand (1925-1990), who visited Notre Dame on several occasions to lecture on Garcilaso Inca and other topics. In one of his last visits he was named the honorary president of an international forum organized at Notre Dame entitled Present and Future of Hispanic Literatures, attended by twenty-two leading creative writers and a few literary critics from Spain and Latin America. The presentations were later published in a collective volume.
Durand dedicated most of his professional life to the study of Garcilaso Inca de la Vega and became one of his most renowned interpreters. He advanced views that renewed our understanding of this author s complex life and works. Durand s achievement was possible in part because he defined the direction of his research very early in his career and thereafter proceeded systematically in realizing his goals. This is demonstrated by two significant examples: (1) in 1948, Professor Durand described and assayed for the first time the library Garcilaso owned at the time of his death; and (2) in 1955, in a Congress in Lima whose proceedings were published the same year under the title Nuevos Estudios sobre el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , he clearly identified the areas that needed to be pursued in order to advance Garcilaso scholarship. As experts unanimously recognize today, these two fundamental contributions shaped the direction of Garcilaso studies for himself and others. In books and articles he wrote from the fifties through the eighties, while living and teaching in Per , M xico, France, and the United States, Durand pursued his task relentlessly, elucidating the sources mentioned in Garcilaso s works and, as a result, reinterpreting a wide variety of related themes concerning religious, historical, literary, linguistic, philosophical, theological, and scientific topics of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Durand also revealed the variety and breadth of Garcilaso s knowledge in areas such as architecture, military science, and music, which Durand then used to compare European and Inca culture. Not only did he demonstrate that Garcilaso possessed a solid Renaissance culture, but most interestingly, that he had reverted to his lost Inca world and then recaptured it in his historical works. In the process of illuminating these areas, Professor Durand revealed that he himself possessed an unparalleled knowledge of Hispanic culture, Renaissance humanism, and Spanish American historiography.
As evidenced in countless publications, he was regarded as an authority not only on Garcilaso but also on the chroniclers of the Indies and Latin American topics from the sixteenth to the early part of the nineteenth century. He was, in short, a specialist in the total experience of Colonial letters. In addition, he wrote knowledgeabl