Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) was a Peruvian chronicler whose Spanish prose won him the designation as the first classic writer of America. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was born in Cuzco on April 12, 1539, the son of Capt. Sebastian Garcilaso de...

Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca. Edited by Raquel Chang-Rodriguez. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006. Pp. 197. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth. La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial...

At a time when many literary scholars are dedicated to the project of ransoming unknown or neglected works from the oblivion that their non-canonical status has imposed on them, Daniel L. Heiple proposes a "revaluation" of Garcilaso de la Vega's lyric, which has...