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Blas Valera (1544-1597) was a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order in Peru, a historian, and a linguist. The son of a Spaniard and an indigenous woman, he was one of the first mestizo priests in Peru.
Blas Valera Pérez (Levanto, Chachapoyas, 3 de febrero de 1545 - Cádiz, 2 de abril de 1597 [1] ) fue un sacerdote jesuita, cronista, historiador, antropólogo, escritor y lingüista nacido en el Virreinato del Perú. Fue uno de los primeros mestizos de la Compañía de Jesús en el Perú.
This is the tale of Father Blas Valera, the child of a native Incan woman and Spanish father, caught between the ancient world of the Incas and the conquistadors of Spain.
Feb 1, 2005 · The life and work of Blas Valera, a sixteenth-century Jesuit and Peruvian mestizo historian of the Inca past, has been too little known for too long.
- Pedro M. Guibovich-Pérez
- 2005
Jun 1, 2005 · The sixteenth-century Peruvian Jesuit Blas Valera was the illegitimate mestizo son of an Incan mother and a very powerful Spanish encomendero.
This is the story of Father Blas Valera, a mestizo Jesuit caught between the Andean world and that of the Spanish conquistadors. Valera believed that the Inca culture, religion and language were equal to their Christian counterparts -- a belief that was denounced as heretical by leaders of the Jesuits -- a new religious order that was striving ...
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Despite its contributions in piecing together the life story of the enigmatic Bias Valera, the book too often makes bold claims based on too little data or on highly controversial evidence. Blas Valera was born in 1544 in Chachapoyas, the son of a conquistador and a woman of Inca descent.
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