The will of Inca Garcilaso mother

Abstract

In April 1945 I had the unique satisfaction of finding in Cuzco the will of Isabel Suarez, the Christian and Spanish name of the Inca Princess Chimpu Ocllo, mother of the great Inca historian Garcilaso de la Vega. Such a discovery has given, for the first time, corporeality to the elusive and mysterious figure of the mother of the famous mestizo, who until now could only be considered a tutelary and distant shadow. In fact, the only concrete references that were possessed until today were those provided by the Inca himself in his works, which have continued to be repeated by all of them for three hundred and fifty years. Apart from this, there was not a single report, a single documentary verification that could ratify or modify the chronicler's few words. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)