Coreg[id]or, Licinciado Gregorio Lopes de Puga fue Cristianicimo y Gran Letrado, Amigo de Dios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Coreg[id]or, Licinciado Gregorio Lopes de Puga fue Cristianicimo y Gran Letrado, Amigo de Dios
Subject: Magistrates; Gregorio Lopez de Puga; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Corregidor
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses and criticizes the government and society in Spanish conquered Peru. This image depicts the Corregidor [Magistrate] named Gregorio Lopez de Puga giving a poor indigenous man a peso in alms. The indigenous man has his hands together in prayer as he accepts the alms. The author explains that this Corregidor replaced a previous Corregidor who had treated the indigenous peoples of Peru horribly and stole money from the provinces. Due to the horrible things the previous Corregidor had done, Corregidor Gregorio Lopez focused on treating the indigenous peoples with respect and treated them well. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “probincias” [in the provinces].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23352
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23352_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Magistrates; Gregorio Lopez de Puga; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Corregidor

Media: mta_23352_OBJ.jpg