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Garcilaso de la Vega, the great chronicler of the Incas and the conquistadors, was born in Cuzco in 1539. At the age of twenty, he sailed to Spain to acquire an education, and he remained there until his death at Córdoba in 1616. As the natural son of a noble conquistador and an Indian woman of royal blood, he took immense pride in both his Spanish and Inca heritage, and, living as he did during a bewildering but stimulating epoch, he personally witnessed the last gasp of the dying Inca empire, the fratricidal conflicts that accompanied the Conquest, and the literary growth as well as the political decline of the Spain of Philip II and Philip III. Garcilaso left for posterity one of the ear...
English summary: The volume is a collection of essays related to the biography, the taste and the history of cardinal Camillo Massimo art collection.Due attention is focused to the state of the collection in times when cardinal Massimo owned the palace alle Quattro Fontane in Rome and to subsequent stages of dispersal of is properties.The essays aim to reconstruct a true profile of one of the leading scholars, patrons and collectors of the second half of the XVII century. Italian description: Il volume raccoglie saggi dedicati alla personalita, al gusto artistico e antiquario e alle vicende storiche delle collezioni d'arte del cardinale Camillo Massimo (1620 - 1677). Particolare attenzione e dedicata a ricostruire la consistenza della raccolta nel periodo in cui questa era riunita nel palazzo romano alle Quattro Fontane e alle successive fasi della sua dispersione.Il carattere multidisciplinare dei contributi scientifici fornisce un profilo dettagliato di uno dei piu importanti eruditi, mecenati e collezionisti di antichita della seconda meta del XVII secolo.
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Esta monografía recoge alrededor de 300 documentos, procedentes del archivo del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de la Academia de Bellas Artes de España en Roma, que corresponden a la etapa de Valle-Inclán como Director de la misma (1933-1936).