by Francisco Lopez Gomara · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788475309767
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«Historia General de las Indias I. Hispania Victrix» is the historical work by Francisco López de Gómara.
Francisco López de Gómara offers in this work a historical chronicle of the Spanish presence in the Indies. The volume, first part of «Historia General de las Indias», bears the subtitle «Hispania Victrix»; the second part focuses on the conquest of Mexico.
Volume I of «Historia General de las Indias», subtitled «Hispania Victrix». 1985 edition, in the collection Biblioteca de Historia.
For readers interested in the history of the Indies and the Spanish expansion in America.
Francisco López de Gómara 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. However other contemporaries, among them most notably Bernal Díaz del Castillo, criticised his work as being full of inaccuracies, and one which unjustifiably sanitised the events and aggrandised Cortés' role. As such, the reliability of his works may be called into question; yet they remain a valuable and oft-cited record of these events.
