Cieza de León, Pedro de, 1518-1554
se13The travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru
The travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Perubook chapter 1864
se13The second part of the Chronicle of Peru
The second part of the Chronicle of Perubook chapter 1883
- Summary
- Pedro Cieza de León was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru and Popayán. He is known primarily for his extensive work, Crónicas del Perú, which has been a source of knowledge for centuries for different disciplines such as history, philology, geography, biology, anthropology, botany and zoology. He wrote this book in four parts, but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. Wikipedia
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [4]
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4]
- Born
- 1518 [2][4]
- Birth Place
- Llerena [2][4]
- Died
- 1554-07-02 [2]
- Death Place
- Sevilla [2]
- Seville [4]
- Country
- Spain [2]
- Language
- Spanish | Castilian [3]
- Occupation
- explorer [4]
- historian [4]
- Sayayin [4]
- chronicler [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
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