Garcilaso de la Vega

American  

[gahr-suh-lah-soh duh luh vey-guh, gahr-thee-lah-saw the lah ve-gah, gahr-see-] / ˌgɑr səˈlɑ soʊ də lə ˈveɪ gə, ˌgɑr θiˈlɑ sɔ ðɛ lɑ ˈvɛ gɑ, ˌgɑr si- /

noun

1. 1503?–36, Spanish poet.

2. (“el Inca” ) 1539?–1616, Peruvian historian and author in Spain.

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Example Sentences

At Libreria Alberto Casares, bookworms can gaze at a collection that includes a French translation of Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega from 1650 and Gregorian chants on papyrus dating back to 1722.

From Washington Times

Her lecture will cover three Peruvian authors: Garcilaso de la Vega, the son of a Spanish noble and an Inca princess, who wrote the first novel about the Inca Empire; José María Arguedas, who wrote on the Quechua culture; and Mario Vargas Llosa, the first Peruvian to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

From New York Times

Now it is under the government of Viracocha that the Deluge is placed by the writers of very recent date, who mention this event, of which the native tradition was unknown to the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, to Montesinos, Balboa, Gomara, F. Oliva, and, in short, to all authorities of any weight in Peruvian matters.

From Project Gutenberg

Garcilaso de la Vega is a pure type of the grandee, Spain's Philip Sidney, a courtier, a soldier, a poet whose gift of song made him the idol of the nation, he is one of the alluring figures of history.

From Project Gutenberg

A Garcilaso de la Vega is the bosom friend of a Francis Borgia, a Francis Borgia communes with a Teresa de Jes�s with the intense pleasure of feeling souls akin, an Ignatius Loyola serves as guide to a Francis Xavier, and so on, these noted lives touch and overlap.

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