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Entre el virrey Toledo y Túpac Amaru: la textualidad "antimaquiavélica" en la «Historia general del Perú» (1616)

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    Oyola Valdez, Daniela
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    Oyola Valdez, Daniela

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2022
    In:
    Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2022, pags. 261-282
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    . In this article, I situate the writing process of the Historia general del Perú, the second part of the Comentarios reales de los incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, within the textual debate in Spain at the turn of the century (from the 16th to the 17th century) about the management of the imperial government, which I have called 'anti-Machiavellian textuality'. I argue that the narrative of Tupac Amaru's execution by order of Viceroy Francisco de Toledo draws on the complex political discourse elaborated by Hispanic authors in response to the secularization of political theory associated with Machiavelli. My hypothesis is that this episode can be seen as the expression of a hybrid discourse by the Cuzco writer not in cultural terms, but because of the juxtapositions that were already part of the Anti-Machiavellian rhetoric that sustained the evangelizing enterprise of the Spanish empire. By this, Garcilaso not only demonstrates his work's relevance within the Spanish historiography, but also achieves the vindication of the Inca past as an integral part of the Habsburgs universal monarchy


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