Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo there Valdés

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo Valdés (August 1478 - 1557) was a Spanish Historien there.

Resulting from a noble family of the Asturies, it was born with Madrid in August 1478, and was educated at the court of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabelle de Castille. There at the 13 years age it became the page of their son, infant it Juan (infant is the title decreed with a child of royal blood which is not heir to the Crown of Spain), attended the Siège of Grenade, and saw Christophe Colomb before its departure for the Americas. To died infant Juan, on October 4th, 1497, it left for the Italy as secretary Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba. In 1514, it was named inspector of the gold foundries of Saint-Domingue, and, on its return in Spain, it was named historiographer of the Indies. It turned over five more times to America before dying in Valladolid in 1557.

In addition to a tale of chivalry entitled Claribalte (1519), it published two important works, which are still of interest today: General there the natural historia of mow Indias and Tired Quinquagenas of the nobleza of España . The first work was initially published in Tolède in the form of a summary entitled Natural historia of mow Indias . The first part of general Historia of mow Indias was printed with Seville in 1535, whereas the complete work was published only in 1851-1855, by the editor Jose Amador of los Rios for the Spanish Academy of history.

Although written in a diffuse style, it contains a quantity of singular information collected first hand, and the incomplete edition of Seville was read much in the versions Frenchwoman and English, respectively published by Poleur and Eden in 1555 and 1556. Las Put describes it like almost containing as many lies as of pages, and it is true that Orviedo presents under the days the most favorable manners of acting of its compatriots. But besides this party taken patriotic, which is too obvious not to be noticed, its account is at the same time exact and interesting.

It is through its book that Europeans - and then the whole world - learned the existence from the hammock, of pineapple and of the tobacco, inter alia things, because they were used by the natives whom it met. The first illustration of a pineapple is allotted to him. It was also responsible for Fortaleza, famous wearing of Domingue Saint, where a large statue of him offered by the king of Spain to the Dominican government is.

In its Quinquagenas , it is given up with a very alive chattering concerning its eminent contemporaries. This collection of picturesque anecdotes and moralisatrices was initially published in Madrid in 1880 pennies the direction of Vicente of Fuente.

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