Antonio de León Pinelo (1589–1660) was a Spanish-colonial
historian.
Pinelo was born in
Cordova de Tucuman to a
converso
A ''converso'' (; ; feminine form ''conversa''), "convert", () was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of his or her descendants.
To safeguard the Old Christian po ...
family, and educated in the
College of the Jesuits of Lima. He travelled to
Spain in 1612 and became attorney of the council of the
Indies. Then, he became judge of the tribunal of
La Contratacion in Seville, succeeding
Gil Gonzalez Davila in 1658 in the post of historian of the Indies. He died in
Seville.
Antonio de Leon Pinelo maintained at great length that Biblical Paradise was situated in America.
The "
cedularios" permitted initiating the compiling works, because they provided order to legal texts. Using those as a base, several Spanish jurists started writing the so-called "summaries", which were extracts of a new law or a mixture of several laws about the same theme. In this work, one of the first was
Diego de Zorrilla
Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''.
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, whose work was then revised by
Rodrigo de Aguiar
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and lastly by Antonio de Leon Pinelo, who prepared a new project and in 1628 published the summaries of the 4 first books so they could be revised.
Works
*Around 1615 he began collecting all the decrees and ordinances that had been issued either by the home government or by the viceroys of the American possessions. He published his works in 1623 "Discurso de la importancia, de la forma, y de la disposicion de la colleccion de las leyes de Indias" (Seville, 1623).
*After obtaining the king's approval to search the archives of
Madrid and
Simancas
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, he published an abridged first part, "Sumario de la recopilacion general" (Seville, 1634). He completed the work in 1645, but its publication was deferred until 1680, when
Vicente Gonzaga
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Vicente may refer to:
Location
* São Vicente, C ...
published it under the title " Recopilacion general de las leyes de las Indias " (4 vols., Madrid, 1680).
*Epitome de la Biblioteca oriental y occidental, nautica y geografica (Madrid, 1629)
*Tratado de confirmaciones reales, que se requieren para las Indias Occidentales (1630)
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Cuestion moral si el chocolate quebronta el ayuno ecclesiastica (1636)
*Tablas Cronologicas (1645)
*Aparato politico de las Indias Occidentales (1653)
*Vida de Santo Toribio arzobispo de Lima (1653)
*El Paraiso en el Nuevo Mundo (1656)
*Acuerdos del Concejo de Indias" (1658)
Pinelo left also several manuscripts, some of which have been published since his death:
*Politica de las Indias" (1829).
*Bulario Indico. Code of the canonical laws in force in South America (1829).
*Historia del Supremo Concejo de las Indias.
*Las ha-zafias de Chile con su historia.
*Fundacion v historia de la ciudad de Lima.
*Descubrimiento y historia de Potosi.
*Relacion de la provincia de Minche y Lacaudon.
Notes
References
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External links
*Spanish-language biography www.lp.edu.pe/hnos_pinelo.htm
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1589 births
1670s deaths
17th-century Spanish historians
Spanish Jews
Spanish people of Portuguese descent