"Antonio Herrera" redirects here. For the businessman, see Antonio Herrera-Vaillant. For the painter, see Antonio Herrera Toro.
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas
Born
1549 Cuéllar, Segovia, Spain
Died
28 March 1626[1] or 27 March 1625[2] Madrid
Resting place
Cuéllar Town Hall, Cuéllar, Segovia, Spain
Occupation
chronicler, historian
Language
Spanish
Nationality
Spanish
Period
1582–1622
Subject
history, geography
Spouse
Juana de Esparza y Artieda (1581–1584)
María de Torres Hinestrosa (1594–1626)
Children
Juana
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 – 28 March 1626[1] or 27 March 1625[2]) was a chronicler, historian, and writer of the Spanish Golden Age, author of Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano que llaman Indias Occidentales ("General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea Known As the West Indies"), better known in Spanish as Décadas and considered one of the best works written on the conquest of the Americas. It is worth noting that Herrera never visited or lived in any part of the Americas. Therefore his work was largely conjectural.
He was Chief Chronicler of Castile and the Americas during the reigns of Philip II and Philip III. Cristóbal Pérez Pastor called him the "prince of the historians of the Americas".[3] He is considered the most prolific historian of his era, and his works also include a general history of the world, a history of Portugal, and a description of the Americas. His output also features translations of works from Italian and Latin into Spanish, and a translation of his own Descripción de las Indias Occidentales ("Description of the West Indies") into Dutch.
Herrera is not given much value by modern historians. A standard Spanish reference work describes him as "an official historian, who was not impartial....[He was] an opportunist, a schemer, and greedy.... He plagiarized entire works which were unpublished at the time.... He had no interest in Native American civilization and therefore never dealt with it."[4]
^ abFernández Duro 1890, p. 174.
^ abCatalina García 1897, p. 332.
^Pérez Pastor 1894, p. 312.
^"Escritor oficioso, careció por tanto de imparcialidad.... Oportunista... intrigante y codicioso.... Plagió obras enteras, entonces inéditas.... No le interesó la cultura indígena [americana] y así no trató de ella”. Quote from R[amón] E[zquerra], in Diccionario de historia de España, 2nd edition, vol. II (Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1968), p. 352.
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