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  • ISBN 9780367700751
  • Weight: 676g
  • Dimensions: 180 x 255mm
  • Publication Date: 12 May 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés' account of the second and third Spanish Expeditions to the Moluccas. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557), warden of the fortress and port of Santo Domingo on the Island of Hispaniola, also served his Emperor, Charles V, as the official chronicler of the first half-century of the Spanish presence in the New World. Book XX, published in 1557, concerns the first three Spanish voyages to the East Indies. Only the first four chapters deal with Magellan's voyage, the remaining thirty-one detail two subsequent expeditions to the Moluccas, 1525-35, the first initially led by García Jofre de and Loaysa. The narrative offers many details of the hardships and conflict with the Portuguese endured by the Spanish. There is also much information about indigenous culture, commerce, geography and the fauna and flora of the Spice Islands.
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Professor Glen Frank Dille (1940–2019), 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, 1514–27, 2006, makes available Oviedo’s 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 (1533–1548), appeared in 2011. These two editions, together with Professor Dille’s 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.