Description
Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519-1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solis de Meras, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America's oldest city.
Until recently, the only extant version of Solis de Meras's record was one single manuscript that Eugenio Ruidiaz y Caravia transcribed in 1893, and subsequent editions and translations have always followed Ruidiaz's text. In 2012, David Arbesu discovered a more complete record: a manuscript including folios lost for centuries and, more important, excluding portions of the 1893 publication based on retellings rather than the original document.
In the resulting volume, Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Conquest of Florida, Arbesu sheds light on principal events missing from the story of St. Augustine's founding. By consulting the original chronicle, Arbesu provides readers with the definitive bilingual edition of this seminal text.
About the Author
David Arbesu, assistant professor of Spanish at the University of South Florida, has edited various early modern and medieval Spanish texts, including the Fazienda de Ultramar and Flores y Blancaflor.
Reviews
A welcome addition to the published canon of La Florida primary sources. . . . This book succeeds resoundingly in its goal to offer this new manuscript copy of Solis de Meras to historians of Florida and the wider United States." - H-Florida
"A welcome contribution to sixteenth-century scholarship. . . . Offers an important perspective on a contested historical space." - Journal of Southern History
Book Information
ISBN 9780813068428
Author Gonzalo Solis de Meras
Format Paperback
Page Count 446
Imprint University Press of Florida
Publisher University Press of Florida
Weight(grams) 645g
Until recently, the only extant version of Solis de Meras's record was one single manuscript that Eugenio Ruidiaz y Caravia transcribed in 1893, and subsequent editions and translations have always followed Ruidiaz's text. In 2012, David Arbesu discovered a more complete record: a manuscript including folios lost for centuries and, more important, excluding portions of the 1893 publication based on retellings rather than the original document.
In the resulting volume, Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Conquest of Florida, Arbesu sheds light on principal events missing from the story of St. Augustine's founding. By consulting the original chronicle, Arbesu provides readers with the definitive bilingual edition of this seminal text.
About the Author
David Arbesu, assistant professor of Spanish at the University of South Florida, has edited various early modern and medieval Spanish texts, including the Fazienda de Ultramar and Flores y Blancaflor.
Reviews
A welcome addition to the published canon of La Florida primary sources. . . . This book succeeds resoundingly in its goal to offer this new manuscript copy of Solis de Meras to historians of Florida and the wider United States." - H-Florida
"A welcome contribution to sixteenth-century scholarship. . . . Offers an important perspective on a contested historical space." - Journal of Southern History
Book Information
ISBN 9780813068428
Author Gonzalo Solis de Meras
Format Paperback
Page Count 446
Imprint University Press of Florida
Publisher University Press of Florida
Weight(grams) 645g
