Pedro Cieza de León , 1518?-1560, Spanish soldier and explorer in South America. His Chronicle of Peru is one of the most richly detailed accounts of the Spanish conquest.
Bibliography: See El Inca, abr. Eng. tr. (1959) by H. de Onís.
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