Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands: The Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535. From Book XX of the General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernández De Oviedo ...

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Professor Glen Frank Dille (19402019) was a veteran of the United States Air Force serving as Captain in the Vietnam-era. He received his BA and MA from the University of Colorado (Boulder) and his Ph. D from Tulane University in New Orleans. He took up a position in Spanish Language and Literature at Bradley University Peoria in 1978 retiring in 2005 with the conferred rank of Professor Emeritus. Specializing in Early Modern Spanish Literature he published La Comedia llamada Serafina: an Anonymous Humanistic Comedy of 1521 in 1979 followed by Antonio Enríquez Gómez 1988 a study of the work of the dramatist poet and novelist (1600-1663). Professor Dille was a distinguished translator. Writing from the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darien 151427 2006 makes available Oviedos account of his service in Panama. The General and Natural History of the Indies. Book 50 Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (15331548) appeared in 2011. These two editions together with Professor Dilles translation of portions of Book XX in this present volume provide welcome access to some of the treasures of a huge text which is still largely available only to readers of Spanish.