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Pedro Cieza de León (Llerena, Spain c. 1520 – Seville, Spain 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru. He is known primarily for his history and description of Peru, ''Crónicas del Perú''. He wrote this book in four parts, but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. ==Early life== Cieza de León was born to a family of Jewish conversos() around 1520 in Llerena, a town in southeastern Extremadura, less than 60 miles from Portugal. Although recently converted from Judaism to Catholicism, the family enjoyed good social standing in the region thanks to their networks and business dealings.() His father, Lope de León, was a shopkeeper in the town, and his mother, Leonor de Cazalla, was a native of Llerena. There is scant documentary evidence of the young Cieza de León’s childhood,〔Cook, Noble David. Introduction to 1998 translation of ''The Discovery and Conquest of Peru: Chronicles of the New World Encounter, edited and translated by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook.'' Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998, p. 5.〕 and little is known of his early life before his voyage to the Americas. Given the fact that he left home at age thirteen, it is doubtful that Cieza de León received more than a rudimentary education. In 1536 while in Córdoba, around the age of 16, Cieza de León was greatly surprised to learn of the discovery of the land of the Incas, and so decided to go to Seville to embarque on his journey to South America, to see for himself the artificts of precious metals which had been brought to Spain from Cajamarca(). In light of the prohibition of entry into the Spanish colonies for Jews and Jewish converts to Catholicism, Alonso López and Luis de Torres attested for Cieza de León that he was not one of the prohibited (). Jewish converso Pedro López de Cazalla, secretary of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Incan Empire, was also his first cousin (). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pedro Cieza de León」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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