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El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno

work by Guamán Poma de Ayala

Also known as: “Letter to a King”

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In Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala
…nobleman who wrote and illustrated El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1612–15; “The First New Chronicle and Good Government”), a critical account of Spanish rule in Peru.
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Latin American literature

In Latin American literature: Historians of the New World
…Government,” translated in abridgment as Letter to a King) is written in a very faulty Spanish, laced with Quechua words and troubled by Quechuan syntax, which gives his work an authentic and dramatic tone. The book is illustrated with Guamán Poma’s primitive but trenchant full-page drawings of the events he…
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