Quotes:Vega, Garcilaso de la

Zirkoff, Boris

Vega, Garcilaso de la (ca. 1535-1616), called “Inca.” Historian of Peru, born at Cuzco. His father, Sebastian Garcilaso (d. 1559), was a cadet of the illustrious family of La Vega, who had gone to Peru in the suite of Pedro de Alvarado; and his mother was of the Peruvian blood-royal, a circumstance which gave him the right to the title. He moved to Spain, 1560. After long service in the army, he turned to literature. His fame depends upon his La Florida del Ynca, a history of the De Soto expedition, which was published in 1605, and his history of Peru entitled Commentarios Reales que tratan de origen de los Yncas, Part I of which appeared in Lisbon in 1608 or 1609, while Part II was publ. in Cordova in 1617. This work has been translated into several languages and utilized by men like Prescott and Robertson in their histories. A more recent ed. of this work is that of Lima (1918-21) prepared by H. H. Urteaga.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 547