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Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (August 1478 – 1557), commonly known as Oviedo, was a Spanish soldier, historian, writer, botanist and colonist. Oviedo participated in the Spanish colonization of the West Indies, arriving in the first few years after Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands in 1492.
GONZALO FERNÁNDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS was born in Madrid in 1478 and came to be one of the foremost scholars of his time. He grew up in close proximity to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, where he held various important positions.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (Madrid, 1478-Santo Domingo, 1557) fue un militar, escritor, botánico, etnógrafo y colonizador español nombrado en 1532 por el emperador Carlos V primer cronista de las Indias recién descubiertas.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. (Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés; Madrid, 1478 - Valladolid, 1557) Historiador, cronista de Indias y administrador español. En 1497 marchó a Italia, donde desempeñó diversos oficios, a través de los cuales conoció a artistas como Leonardo da Vinci y Miguel Ángel Buonarroti, y se distinguió como ...
Aug 17, 2006 · Historia general y natural de las Indias. by. Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557; R. Academia de la historia, Madrid; Amador de los Rios, José, 1818-1878. ed. Publication date. 1851-55.
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo. Madrid, 1478 – Santo Domingo (República Dominicana), 7.VI.1557. Cronista. De sus padres asturianos, la información que nos ofrece el cronista es escasa. Acucioso en indagar la genealogía de los demás, incurriría en la contradicción de no consignar en parte alguna el nombre de su padre.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478--1557) was one of the most important early chroniclers of the Spanish presence in the Americas. Born in Madrid of noble parents from Asturias, at age 12 he became a page to the Duke of Villahermosa.
Gonzalo Fernández Oviedo y Valdés (b. August 1478; d. 26 June 1557), chronicler of the Indies. Born in Madrid, Oviedo was one of the earliest and most astute chroniclers of the Indies, combining a critical understanding of the historical method with first-hand experience.
Dec 4, 2018 · That sloths survived by eating air had previously been posited by Spanish writer Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, who was one of the first to describe a sloth in his 1526 Historia...
May 1, 1970 · Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands: The Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525–1535; From Book XX of “The General and Natural History of the Indies” by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
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