Andrés González de Barcia

Andrés González de Barcia (died 1743) was a Spanish historian and one of the founders of the Royal Spanish Academy.[1]

Andrés González de Barcia
Born1673 
Died1743  (aged 69–70)
OccupationHistorian 

Works

He published General History of Florida (Madrid, 1723), and First Historians of the West Indies, issued in sections, and published collectively after his death (3 vols., folio, 1749). He also edited Herrera's Décadas (1725–30); de la Vega, La Florida (1723), Comentarios reales de los Incas (1723); and Torquemada;[2] Gregorio García's Origen de los indios del Nuevo Mundo (1729); Antonio de Solís, Historia de la conquista de México (1732); Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana (1733). Appearing posthumously are his Fernando de Colón, Historia del Almirante Colón (1749); Hernán Cortés, Cartas de relación (1749); Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias (1749); Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Relación de la jornada que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Pánfilo de Narvaez (1749); Francisco López de Gómara, Historia de las Indias y de la conquista de México (1749); and Francisco de Xérez, Verdadera relación de la conquista del Perú (1749).[3]

References
  1. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2001, p. 155.
  2. Andrés González de Barcia, "Proemio" in Juan de Torquemada, Primera (segunda, tercera) parte de los veinte i uno libros rituales i monarchia indiana. Madrid: N. Rodríguez Franco 1723.
  3. Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World, p. 371, fn. 88.

Sources
  •  Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Barcia, Andrés González de" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  • Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge (2007-04-30). "Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library (review)". Libraries & the Cultural Record. 42 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1353/lac.2007.0001. ISSN 2166-3033. Retrieved 2018-01-30.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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