Tropes and troops: rhetoric in the first part of Pedro Cieza de Leon’s Chronicle of Peru
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.9689Keywords:
spanish literature, colonial literature, Cieza de Leon, chronicle, 16th century, South AmericaAbstract
The First Part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro Cieza de Leon is the first chronicle about the Spanish conquest of South America. In addition, it is a fundamental work about the indigenous cultures that the conquerors encountered during the early years of colonization. Until now, the Chronicle has been studied more as an historical work with little detailed attention given to the rhetorical tropes and topics that surprisingly adorn it. This study not only identifies these elements but traces their sources and examines their embellishment function which aimed to capture the attention of the Spanish Crown and the imagination of a European culture already enthusiastic if not impatient to learn more about the American New World.
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