An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru

TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY
Ralph Bauer

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yupangui, Diego de Castro, titu cussi, 16th cent.
  [Relación de la conquista del Perú. English]
   An Inca account of the Conquest of Peru / by titu cusi Yupanqui ; translated,
introduced, and annotated by Ralph Bauer.
        p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN 0-87081-807-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-87081-821-X (pbk. :
alk. paper)
    1. Peru—History—Conquest, 1522–1548. 2. Peru—History—1548–1820. I.
Bauer, Ralph. II. Title.
    F3442.Y85 2005
    985'.02—dc22
                                                                                                             2005006829

Design by Daniel Pratt

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For Grace

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction

Translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Account

Bibliography

Glossary of Quechua and Spanish Terms Appearing in the Text

Index

1. Map of Tahuantinsuyu. From Moseley,
The Incas and
Their Ancestors

2. Huascar Inca (the Twelfth Inca) is taken prisoner by
Atahuallpa's generals

3. Atahuallpa meets Francisco Pizarro, the priest Vicente de
Valverde, and the translator Felipillo. From Guaman Poma de
Ayala,
Nueva corónica y buen gobierno

4. Atahuallpa is executed by the Spaniards. From Guaman
Poma de Ayala,
Nueva corónica y buen gobierno

5. A
quipucamayoc
interpreting quipus. From Guaman Poma de
Ayala,
Nueva corónica y buen gobierno

6. The newly reigning Manco Inca in his ceremonial throne
in Cuzco. From Guaman Poma de Ayala,
Nueva corónica y
buen gobierno

7. St. James the Great, Apostle of Christ, intervenes in the
war for Cuzco. From Guaman Poma de Ayala,
Nueva corónica
y buen gobierno

8. Frontispiece of Domingo Santo Tomás's
Lexicon o Vocabulario
(1560)

I would like to thank the staff of the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio San Lorenzo del Escorial, particularly José Luis del Valle Merino and Teodoro Alonso Turienzo, for permitting me to inspect the original manuscript of Titu Cusi's
Instrucción
and the staff of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real in Madrid, particularly Valentín Moreno and Pilar Uguiua, for their helpfulness in permitting me to produce a photocopy of the microfilm copy of the text. I also want to thank my colleague Regina Harrison for her patience and helpfulness in answering my questions. Thanks finally to K. Lane and the anonymous reader for University Press of Colorado for their invaluable comments, as well as to Darrin Pratt and Laura Furney for their patience and encouragement.