Quotes:Zarate, Augustine de

Zirkoff, Boris

Zarate, Augustine de. Spanish historian of the middle and later part of the XVIth century. He was for some years Comptroller of Accounts for Castile, after which he was sent to Peru to bring order to colonial finances. He went in the train of the viceroy Blasco Nunez, and found himself very soon entangled in the meshes of various political intrigues and civil discord. He nevertheless acquitted himself successfully in several difficult missions and, upon returning to Spain, was made Superintendant of the Finances in Flanders. Back in his native country, Zarate undertook to write a historical account of Peru, beginning with its discovery and ending with the events which he himself had witnessed. He intended it to be published after his death, but when it was submitted to the Emperor, it received such commendation that the author consented to give 551 it to the press. Accordingly, it was published at Antwerp in 1555, under the title of Historia del discubrimiento y conquista de la provincia del Perú. Other editions were printed in Venice, 1563, and Sevilla, 1577. The work is authoritative and has been translated into several languages.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, pp. 550-551