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Revolution on the Road to El Dorado: The Chronicle of Soldier Francisco Vásquez on Lope de Aguirre's Rebellion

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Revolution on the Road to El Dorado: The Chronicle of Soldier Francisco Vásquez on Lope de Aguirre's Rebellion
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A book by renowned historian and Iberian philologist Andrei Kofman is dedicated to the most famous of all the expeditions undertaken in search of El Dorado: the one that set out from Peru in 1560 down the Amazon. This expedition, which its commander, Don Pedro de Ursúa, envisioned as little more than a pleasure trip, turned into a bloody nightmare, the protagonist of which was an unknown elderly soldier, Lope de Aguirre. As a result of his conspiracy, Pedro de Ursúa was assassinated, and the subsequent events unfolded in a way that truly astonishes how similar this small revolution turned out to be to the great revolutions that would come – the English, French, Russian… These events are reflected in a number of chronicles written by the expedition's participants themselves, of which the most complete and detailed is the report of the soldier Francisco Vásquez, entitled "The Discovery of the Amazon River." However, this chronicle alone is insufficient to objectively assess the events. In this book, Vázquez's chronicle itself is accompanied by fragments from other texts that present a different perspective on key events. The chronicle is framed by a preface and an afterword. The preface introduces the reader to the impetus for the expedition, as well as the twists and turns of Lope de Aguirre's life up to 1560. The afterword provides a psychological profile of Lope de Aguirre, who embodied the conquistador personality to its extreme.
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