Cieza de León, a soldier who knew many of the men he describes, records the civil war that followed the arrival of Peru’s first viceroy, Blasco Núñez Vela, with laws to curb the conquistadors. Gonzalo Pizarro leads the settlers in revolt, the viceroy is seized and shipped away, and the struggle spreads north to Quito.
A vivid primary source on the Spanish conquest of Peru, translated for the Hakluyt Society by Sir Clements Markham. Download the free EPUB.