Pricidente I Oidores de su Magestad y Alcaldes de Corte y Fiscal Alguazil Mayor Deste Rreyno · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pricidente I Oidores de su Magestad y Alcaldes de Corte y Fiscal Alguazil Mayor Deste Rreyno
Subject: Royal Audience; Colonialism; Government; Magistrates; Conquest; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image depicts the royal audience of Lima, the ruling body of Spanish colonial Peru. There are three men sitting on each side of a staircase with one man sitting at the top. They are all dressed in traditional European/Spanish clothing. The author explains that the governors rarely favour or care for the indigenous peoples of Peru. The large caption written at the bottom of the image reads, “que para el buen govierno a de auer un letrado y dos protetores que partan el salario y dos proquradores y u[n] lengua y u[na] persona que sepa la lengua y haga en borra[dor] memoriales para que entienda el letrado protetores y an[...] y no le [...] pitici[o]nas ni le [...]” [for good government there should be a learned advocate, two defenders who shall share a salary, two attorneys, an interpreter, and another person fluent in the [Quechua] language who can draw up memoranda for the use of the advocate, the defenders, and […] petitions, nor […]].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23259
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
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Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Royal Audience; Colonialism; Government; Magistrates; Conquest; Indigenous Peoples

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