The royal commentaries of Peru in two parts, the first part treating of the original of their Incas or kings ..., the second part, describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards ...

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The Comentarios Reales de los Incas is a book written by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the first published mestizo writer of colonial Andean South America. The Comentarios Reales de los Incas is considered by most to be the unquestioned masterpiece of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born of the first generation after the Spanish conquest. He wrote what is arguably the best prose of the colonial period in Peru.
A direct blood descendant of the royal Inca rulers of prehispanic Peru and with equal parts of Spanish blood, Garcilaso Inca wrote these chronicles as a firsthand account of the Inca traditions and customs. He was born a few years after the initial Spanish conquest, and grew up while the process and warfare were still underway. He was formally educated within the Spanish system of his father and for the most part, "Garcilaso interpreted Inca and Andean religion from the European and Christian point of view that he had been taught to adopt from infancy and that provided him with most of his historical and philosophical terminology."