Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America : A New History for a New World

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FER NÁNDEZ DE OVIEDO’S CHRONICLE OF AMER ICA A New History for a New World kathleen ann myers translations by nina m. scott university of texas press Austin Copyright © 2007 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2007 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html 䊊 ⬁ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Myers, Kathleen Ann. Fernández de Oviedo’s chronicle of America : a new history for a New World / Kathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Nina M. Scott. — 1st ed. p. cm. “Translations of passages from Fernández de Oviedo’s Historia general y natural de las Indias”: p. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-292-71703-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478–1557 Historia general y natural de las Indias. 2. America—Early accounts to 1600. 3. America—Discovery and exploration—Historiography. 4. America—Discovery and exploration—Biography. 5. Historians— America—Biography. 6. Historians—Spain—Biography. 7. Explorers—America—Biography. 8. Explorers—Spain— Biography. I. Scott, Nina M. II. Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478–1557. Historia general y natural de las Indias. English. Selections. III. Title. e141.096m94 2007 970.01'6—dc22 2007021076 For my parents, Mary Tyrrell Myers and Richard James Myers THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...