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Nature in the New World
Translated by Jeremy Moyle In Nature in the New World (translated into English in 1985), Antonello Gerbi examines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations.Initial chapters are devoted to the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortes, Verrazzano, and others. The second portion of the book concerns the Historia general y natural de las Indias of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, a work commissioned by Charles V of Spain in 1532 but not published in its entirety until the 1850s. Antonello Gerbi contends that Oviedo, a Spanish administrator who lived in Santo Domingo, has been unjustly neglected as a historian. Gerbi shows that Oviedo was a major authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World.
The Journey of the Vaca Party
"Deals with the governance of the provinces of the rivers Pánuco and Hermoso, which are the two great rivers which together penetrate the north coast. It also deals with the Palmas River which is more to the east, going up the coast and in the direction of the province called Florida. And it tells of how Captain Pánfilo de Narváez and his people, who went to settle these provinces and rivers, became lost."--page [1].
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, the Author of Lazarillo and Viaje de Turquía
It is clear that the final verdict has still not been pronounced on the authorship of this work. As we know from Alfredo Rodríguez López-Vázquez, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo could have been the author of Viaje de Turquía. This hypothesis may have been abandoned in the forthcoming years, but the fact remains that Rodríguez López-Vázquez studied the Viaje de Turquía for many years. He also studied the presuming author of Lazarillo for many years and felt very strongly that Lazarillo had something to do with the author of Viaje de Turquía.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (Lucena), the Unknown Son of the Embassador Juan Ramírez de Lucena and Author of La Celestina. Volume II
One thing should be clear to the readers: I was sure from the beginning that Lucena was the author of La Celestina. The challenge was to know the real name behind the pseudonym Lucena. In 2004 I thought that it was Juan del Encina. This was the result of intuition and much reading. Consequently when I stated that Juan del Encina was the writer of books such as La Celestina, Amadís, Carajicomedia, Sergan, etc., the reader should always bear in mind that at the first stage I reverted to Lucena and at the second stage to Juan del Encina. I wrote this book in English, seeing the sarcastic comments I received in Salamanca and to which I have reverted in Volume I, hoping that people in other countries will have a more open mind to innovation and new ideas. On the other hand, through English texts historians in my native country will also be aware of the importance of the Spanish literature around 1500, because till now they've stuck too much to French history.
Las Memorias de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
This is an edition of the parts of the Quincuagenas of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo that the author considers "aspectos de las Quincuagenas que podemos considerar respaldados por las vivencias del autor," hence the title Memorias. We are left, however, with two substantial volumes of which this is the second.
The Great Captain: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Biography of Queen Isabella's Commander-in-Chief, set against the background of the Italian and Spanish Renaissance.
Natural Designs
Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and visual and textual analysis, Elizabeth Gansen explores how Oviedo, in his writings, brought the European Renaissance to bear on his understanding of New World nature. Oviedo learned much from the humanists with whom he came into contact in the courtly circles of Spain and Italy, including Giovanni Battista Ramusio and Pietro Bembo, and witnessed Christopher Columbus regaling Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand with news from his inaugural voyage to the Indies. Fascinated by the Caribbean flora and ...
Writing from the Edge of the World
A stirring account of Spain’s incursion into the New World. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo is the 16th-century author of Historia general y natural de las Indias, a general and natural history of the peoples and places he encountered in his travels to Spanish America. Oviedo was educated at the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and held several early appointments to the royal household, first as page to their son, John. In 1513, he accepted the appointment as warden of the gold mines of Castilla de Oro on the Isthmus of Panama in Darién, the first viable Spanish settlement on the American mainland. His first year at the very edge of the known world converted Oviedo into a lifelong ...
