The Inca Princesses: Tales of the Indies

by STIRLING STUART

• ISBN13: 9780750930796
• ISBN10: 0750930799
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd

Summary

Stuart Stirling tells the history of the Inca princesses and of their conquistador lovers and descendants. The story begins with the early days of Pizarro's conquest at Cajamarca in the 1530s, when the emperor Atahualpa gifted his young sister wife Quispe Sis Huaylas to Pizarro. This was the beginning of the distribution and rape of the princesses among the conquistadors - a practice which was in many ways a distillation of the tragedy of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The detailed human stories of the princesses bring to life the world of the Incas and their conquerors and shed new light on the darker corners of colonial history.

Author Biography

Stuart Stirling studied at The Royal College of Art and was The Times correspondent in Argentina for several years. He now works as a journalist and playwright in London

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Preface	ix
Map of Peru	x
One The Galleons of Seville	1	(20)
Two The Kingdom of the Snow Mountains	21	(15)
Three The Marquis of Las Charcas	36	(3)
Four The Nephews of Doña Inés	39	(5)
Five The Child Empress	44	(3)
Six The River of the Holy Ghost	47	(7)
Seven The Old Soldier	54	(27)
Eight The Haunting	81	(6)
Nine The Requiem	87	(2)
Ten The Blind Man of La Mota	89	(9)
Eleven The Emperor's Daughter	98	(19)
Twelve The Mestizo Prince	117	(10)
Thirteen The Bride of Santa Clara	127	(6)
Fourteen The Lost Treasure	133	(5)
Fifteen The Sacristan of Córdoba	138	(4)
Sixteen The Last of the Conquistadores	142	(15)
Seventeen The Torture of Doña Catalina	157	(3)
Eighteen The Bishop's Legacy	160	(4)
Nineteen The Imperial City	164	(16)
Twenty The Prisoner of Cusco	180	(8)
Twenty-one The Last Inca	188	(7)
Chronology	195	(3)
Genealogy:
Children of the Emperor Huayna Capac	198	(1)
Concubines	199	(1)
Glossary and Place Names	200	(9)
Notes	209	(8)
Bibliography	217	(5)
Index	222