Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 History & biography Historians, various biographies

Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo

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FERNANDEZ de OVIEDO y VALDÉS, GONZALO. - Historian, b. in Madrid in 1478, d. in Valladolid in 1557. In 1513 he went to America, where he fought against the natives and was governor of the fortress of St. Domingo.

His Historia general y natural de las Indias, the fruit of his colonial experience, constitutes a source of very useful and, in general, reliable information on the conquest and the early development of the West Indies, of Peru, of Mexico. His attitude toward the Indians is free from fanaticism. The hostility of Las Casas apparently prevented the publication of the work. He also wrote: Quincinagenas de la nobleza de España; Batallas y quincinagenas.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Opere; ed. della Historia, con intr. a note di A. De Los Rios, Madrid 1851-55, ed. nella collezione Letras españolas, 10, ivi 1927. Studi: E. Fuster, Storia della storiografia moderna, I, trad. it., Napoli 1944, p. 335 sec.

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By Costanzo Eguia

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 1179.

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Eguia, Costanzo. “Fernandez de Oviedo Y Valdés, gonzalo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1179. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/fernandez-de-oviedo-y-valdes-gonzalo.

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Eguia, Costanzo. “Fernandez de Oviedo Y Valdés, gonzalo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1179. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/fernandez-de-oviedo-y-valdes-gonzalo.

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  author    = {Eguia, Costanzo},
  title     = {Fernandez de Oviedo Y Valdés, gonzalo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {1179},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/fernandez-de-oviedo-y-valdes-gonzalo}
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