Historia general de las Indias. Vida de Hernán Cortés (Zaragoza 1552)
Francisco López de GómaraFrancisco López de Gómara (February 2, 1511 - c. 1566) was a Spanish historian who worked in Seville, particularly noted for his works in which he described the early 16th century expedition undertaken by Hernán Cortés in the Spanish conquest of the New World. Although Gómara himself did not accompany Cortés, and had in fact never been to the Americas, he had firsthand access to Cortés and others of the returning conquistadores as the sources of his account.
He was born at Gómara on February 2, 1511.[1] He studied at the Alcalá de Henares where he was later ordained a priest. In the 1530s he spent most of his time in Italy serving Spanish ambassador Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. He returned from Italy after 1540 and entered the service of Hernán Cortés as secretary and chaplain.[2][3]
He accompanied Cortes on the Algerian expedition and, after the death of his patron, it is known that he was at Valladolid in 1556 or 1557, after which he is supposed to have retired to his native city of Seville where he probably died.
With the information given him by the conqueror and other persons who had returned from the New World (he himself cites Gonzalo de Tapia and Gonzalo de Umbria) he wrote his Historia general de las Indias, a work published at Zaragoza in the year 1552.BUT ... Read also :
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