Francisco López de Gómara

Francisco López de Gómara is a Spanish historian 16th century, originating in Seville.

Biography

After studies with the University of Alcalá to Alcalá de Henares, Francisco López de Gómara becomes priest then returns to the service of Hernan the Cortes. He was the chaplain and the secretary of the Conquistador in the last years of this one, and became his official Historiographe. He then had access to first hand information on behalf of the many travellers who returned from the Nouveau world such as Gonzalo de Tapia or Bernal Diaz del Castillo. He thus describes with precision the Conquête of America in his more famous work, the general Historia of mow Indias . The book is diffused in the adjoining countries and is translated into French then in Italian.

But the November 17th 1553, prince Philippe of Spain, the future Philippe II, confiscates by decree all the copies of the book and prohibits its reprinting. This prohibition will be raised only in 1727.

Montaigne uses it when it writes its test I, 31 ( Of the Cannibals ).

External bonds

  1. López de Gómara. Historia of mow Indias. Edición de Martín Nucio, 1554

Sources

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