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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo (1478-1557)
Titre conventionnel : [Historia general y natural de las Indias (anglais). Extrait. 2021]
Titre(s) : Spanish and Portuguese conflict in the Spice Islands [Texte imprimé] : the Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535 : from Book XX of the General and Natural History of the Indies / by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ; edited by Glen F. Dille
Publication : London : Routledge for the Hakluyt Society, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-194 pages) : maps ; 25 cm
Collection : Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; third series, no. 38
Lien à la collection : Works issued by the Hakluyt society
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-182) and index
"Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, (1478-1557), warden of the fortress and port
of Santo Domingo of the Island of Hispaniola, also served his emperor, Charles V,
as the official chronicler of the first half-century of the Spanish presence in the
New World. His monumental General y Natural Historia de las Indias, consisting of
three parts, with fifty books, hundreds of chapters and thousands of pages, is still
a major primary source for researchers of the period 1492-1548. Part One, consisting
of 19 books, was first published in 1535, then reprinted and augmented in 1547, with
a third edition, including Book XX, the first book of Part II, appearing in Valladolid
in 1557. Book XX, which was printed separately in Valladolid in 1557 (the year of
Oviedo's death), concerns the first three Spanish voyages to the East Indies. While
it might be expected that the narrative of Magellan's voyage would predominate in
Book XX, Oviedo devoted only the first four chapters to this monumental voyage. The
remaining thirty-one concern the two subsequent and little-known Spanish follow-up
expeditions to the Moluccas 1525-35. The first, initially led by García Jofre de
Loaysa, set out from Coruña to follow Magellan's route through the Strait and across
the Pacific. A second relief expedition under Alvaro Saavedra was sent out in search
of Loaysa's company from the Pacific coast of New Spain in 1527. In each venture only
one vessel reached the Spice Islands. Oviedo's narrative offers many details of the
10 years of hardships and conflict with the Portuguese, endured by the stoic Spanish,
and of the growing unrest it provoked among their indigenous hosts. The news that
Charles V had pawned his claim to the King João III of Portugal allowed a very few
of the Spaniards to negotiate a passage back to Spain via Lisbon, while others remained
in Portuguese settlements in the East Indies. The reports made by the returnees to
the Consejo de Indias were integrated by Oviedo into his narrative, expanded and enriched
by personal interviews. His chronicle includes much information about the indigenous
culture, commerce, geography and of the exotic fauna and flora of the Spice Islands"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Dille, Glen F. (1940-2019). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535
Sujet(s) : Loaisa, García Jofre de (14..-1526)
Découverte et exploration espagnoles -- Moluques (Indonésie) -- 16e siècle
Genre ou forme : Ouvrages avant 1800
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367700751. - ISBN 0367700751. - ISBN 9781003144472 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000367133
(erroné). - ISBN 9781000367089 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46809032g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46809032
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