The product of a mixed marriage between a Spaniard and a royal Incan princess, Garcilaso de la Vega was born in 1539 in Cusco, Peru.
Garcilaso spoke both Quechua and Spanish and traveled to Spain in 1560 with money inherited from his father. There, he was educated but only after presenting his case to the Spanish courts to receive recognition for the rights of his father--mixed marriages were not recognized in Spain at the time.
Garcilaso took the name "El Inca," thereafter, as a proud statement of his heritage.
Garcilaso published Comentarios Reales de los Incas in 1609. The book serves as the most detailed document of Incan history and early colonial rule of its time.
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nation of multiracial and
multicultural individuals of achievement (not tragic mulattoes).
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