The Inca writing according to two recently discovered jesuitic secret documents.

Authors

  • Laura Laurencich Minelli Doctora. Universidad de Bologna, Italia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31057/2314.3908.v4.n1.17633

Keywords:

Inca writing, quipu, numerology, Guaman Poma /Jesuits contract, Paititi, P. Mutio Vitelleschi

Abstract

Two Jesuit documents recently discovered in an Italian archive: Exul Immeritus Blas Valera populo Suo (1616) by F. Blas Valera and Historia et Rudimenta Linguae Piruanorum, (end of 16th-1638) by B. Antonio Cumis and F. Anello Oliva are telling us about the quipu writing as for communicating in the ante-litteram “Reduccion” of Paititi (Virreino del Peru). These new sources argue about the Inca writing described in the Comentarios Reales (1609), being adapted to the Spanish Power by Garcilaso de La Vega, and about the authorship of the Nueva Coronica (1615) not beeing Guaman Poma’s but Blas Valera’s, Anello Oliva’s and Gonzalo Ruiz’s in order to have a Native writing to the King of Spain.

Author Biography

  • Laura Laurencich Minelli, Doctora. Universidad de Bologna, Italia.
    Doctora. Universidad de Bologna, Italia.

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Published

2016-06-01

How to Cite

The Inca writing according to two recently discovered jesuitic secret documents. (2016). Antiguos Jesuitas En Iberoamérica, 4(1), 68-90. https://doi.org/10.31057/2314.3908.v4.n1.17633

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