Tate, JamesMareMagnum
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Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Sixty poems. 92 pages, signed by the author on the title page.
33834c. 1548. The envelope 141 x 73mm is addressed to "Mr. T. Jenkin. 32 Strada Reale. Malta" contained within is a piece of brown cloth 46 x 21mm with edges frayed on the reverse of the envelope in a contemporary hand "A Piece of "Pizzaio's" "Shroud" taken from the Cathedral at "Lima" in 1870. Not by Miracle. Pizzaro was the Conqueror of Peru about 1520." Gonzalo Pizarro 1513-1548 was a Spanish conquistador who was one of his brother Francisco's main lieutenants during the conquest of the Inca Empire. Gonzalo was cruel and ruthless but undeniably a very effective soldier. After the conquest he fought alongside his brothers and their supporters during the civil wars that broke out among the conquistadors. Later he led the resistance in Peru to the "New Laws" of 1542 taking up arms against an official Spanish Viceroy: this earned him a royal execution in 1548. "Gonzalo's remains were not exposed to the indignities inflicted on Carbajal's whose quarters were hung in chains on the four great roads leading to Cuzco. Centeno saved Pizarro's body from being stripped by redeeming his costly raiment from the executioner and in this sumptuous shroud it was laid in the chapel of the convent of Our Lady of Mercy in Cuzco." Precott The Conquest of Peru p.497. [c. 1548] hardcover