![]() ![]() ![]() Hoping to contribute to a new political order that guaranteed the rights of indigenous peoples – and looking to curb the rise of the mestizos whom he believed to symbolize the destruction of the pre-Columbian Andean world – Guaman Poma looked to Renaissance historiography for models as he penned his 1,200-page exercise in comparative history. ![]() In 1615, the Quechua convert to Catholicism Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala proudly asserted in a letter to Philip III that his Nueva Corónica would offer a general history of how the indigenous population of Peru had suffered at the hands of the Spanish. Giuseppe Marcocci, The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 214pp. Stuart McManus, Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 300pp. ![]()
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