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The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J
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The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. By Sabine Hyland. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 269. $30.
In the mid-199Os a major controversy broke out among Andean scholars over a relatively obscure colonial Peruvian Jesuit, Bias Valera (1549-97), the author of a history of the Incas and a short chronicle on the Inca religion. Recent documents discovered in Italy, however, claim that this Peruvian Jesuit, who had been exiled to Spain for some crime or misconduct and who presumably died there, in fact returned to his homeland and went on to become the intellectual author of another chronicle, which bears the name of Felipe Guamán …
