Antonio de Herrera
Spanish historian · Spain · On the map · Writers · Lived 1549 to 1626 · aged 77
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas was a chronicler, historian, and writer of the Spanish Golden Age, author of Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano que llaman Indias Occidentales, better known in Spanish as Décadas and considered one of the best works written on the conquest of the Americas.
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Church of Santa Marina, of which only the tower remains. Drawing by Francisco Javier Parcerisa in 1865.
Title page of Descripción de las Indias, first edition, 1601, with iconographic engravings of indigenous people. It includes the only known portrait of the author.
Title page of Décadas
1601 map Descripcion de las Yndias Ocidentales from Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas i Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano
Title page of the second part of his Historia general del mundo.
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Country
Spain
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1549 to 1626 · aged 77
