The aims of this comprehensive labor by Jesús Paniagua Pérez, Lorenzo Martínez Ángel, Antonio Reguera Feo, and Ferran Grau Codina are to introduce and publish all three books of the 1644 University of Seville manuscript Ophir de España: Memorias historiales y políticas del Perú by Fernando de Montesinos collectively for the first time. An endeavor such as this is an inspiring and overdue fulfillment of Montesinos's enduring dream to have the first half of his chronicle published. Paniagua Pérez provides readers with a brilliant 175-page informational and uncritical preamble, offered as part of a proper edition of Ophir de España.
What serves as the insightful introduction to this edition is divided into four primary sections—“El momento histórico de Montesinos,” “Vida y obras de Fernando Montesinos,” “Las fuentes utilizadas por Montesinos,” and “Características de la obra de Montesinos”—that cover a wide array of topics. With a historical optic, Paniagua Pérez...
