Chapter VI: Historical Literature

Chronicling Period gone by 553
Antonio de Guevara 553
Florian de Ocampo 554
Pedro Mexia 555
Accounts of the New World 556
Fernando Cortés 556
Francisco Lopez de Gomara 557
Bernal Diaz 558
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo 559
His Historia de las Indias 560
His Quinquagenas 562
Bartolomé de las Casas 563
His Brevísima Relacion 565
His Historia de las Indias 566
Vaca, Xerez, and Çarate 567
Approach to Regular History 568

HISTORY
OF
SPANISH LITERATURE.

FIRST PERIOD.

THE LITERATURE THAT EXISTED IN SPAIN BETWEEN THE FIRST
APPEARANCE OF THE PRESENT WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND THE EARLY PART OF
THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES THE FIFTH; OR FROM THE END OF
THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH.

HISTORY
OF
SPANISH LITERATURE.

FIRST PERIOD.