Nueva crónica y buen gobierno -

Guamán Poma de Ayala

Los Libros Más Pequenos del Mundo

2006

411 páginas

13h 42m

ISBN-10: 9972886255

Espanhol

El Primer Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno (The First New Chronicle and Good Government in English), is a Peruvian chronicle finished around 1615. Its author, the indigenous Peruvian Felipe Guaman Poma of Ayala, sent it as a handwritten manuscript to King Philip III of Spain. His purpose was to give a historical account of the Andes from the earliest human beings to the Incas and the Spanish conquest; it was also meant as a call of attention towards the deep problems caused by Spanish government in the region. The manuscript was never published and its location for the next several centuries is unknown. The scholar Richard Pietschmann rediscovered it at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in 1908; Paul Rivet published a facsimile edition in Paris in 1936. Some researchers believe that the manuscript traveled from Spain to Denmark via the library of the Count-Duke of Olivares, in Spain, part of which was sold to Cornelius Pedersen Lerche, ambassador of Denmark in Spain. Nevertheless, this is only a theory.