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The History of the New World: Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo

The History of the New World: Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo

Benzoni, Girolamo
Byars, Jana
Schwaller, Robert C.

Paperback

Series: Latin American Originals, Book 11

Religion General Colonial Period (1600-1775)General World History

ISBN10: 0271077573
ISBN13: 9780271077574
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Mar 14 2017
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

The History of the New World is an abridged, unique English translation of sixteenth-century Italian merchant Girolamo Benzoni's popular account of his adventures in the Americas and the Spanish colonies.

First published in Venice in 1565, Benzoni's book was an immediate best seller and available in at least five languages before the end of the century. It spanned the years 1541-56, providing detailed descriptions of native flora and fauna, exciting narration of harrowing exploits, and a surprisingly critical perspective on the expanding Spanish Empire's methods of conquest and governance, in which Benzoni highlighted the struggles of indigenous peoples. This edition follows the three-book structure of the original account but focuses on Benzoni's own experiences, omitting episodes to which he was not a witness and excising repetition and hyperbolic hearsay.

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