Narratives about the Iberic Expansionism in the Pacific: a Comparison of two Versions about the Villalobos Expedition (1542)
Authors
Paula Hoyos Hattori
Licenciada y profesora en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, en donde se desempeña
como docente de literatura europea del Renacimiento. Becaria doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET)
The paper aims to analyze the Spanish expedition headed by Ruy López de Villalobos, that left from New Spain in 1542. Two documents provide different points of view about the same expedition: (i) one official report, written by García Descalante Alvarado in Lisbon, in 1548; (ii) one letter, written by the Jesuit Cosme de Torres (1510-1570) from Goa (India), in 1549. The comparison of the texts shows how the rivalry between the Spanish and the Portuguese kingdoms were running at the time in the Pacific Ocean. Besides, the second document was edited during the 16th century, which reveals the discursive component in that rivalry.
Keywords:
Portugal, Spain, Pacific Ocean, Expedition, Jesuits, 16th century
Hoyos Hattori, P. (2017). Narratives about the Iberic Expansionism in the Pacific: a Comparison of two Versions about the Villalobos Expedition (1542). Cuadernos De Historia, (46), pp. 7–30. Retrieved from https://cuadernosdehistoria.uchile.cl./index.php/CDH/article/view/46694
