The Indian as miserable: The controversy over the alleviation of poverty in fiction and in the Comentarios reales of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
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Indian., Poverty., Inca., Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish Literature, Fiction.Abstract
In this essay I address how the indigenous population of the new continent was incorporated in the concept of the poor. During the last period of Philip II´s reign the poor became a problem for the Imperial administration. A group of intellectuals in the University of Salamanca set up the intellectual grounds in which the inhabitants of the New World were described as those members of the society most needed of attention. Fiction writers as Cervantes and Mateo Aleman shared these concepts. Garcilaso, el Inca, de la Vega was an active member of that philosophical school and his description of the Indios in the Comentarios reales clearly reflects the philosophical and moral principles concerning to the poor forged by the Salamanca school.Downloads
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