1609. It was based mostly on stories and oral histories told him by his Inca relatives when he was a child in Cusco, but also on the remnants of the history by Blas Valera which was mostly destroyed in the sacking of Cadiz in 1596. The Comentarios have two sections and volumes. The first was primarily about Inca life. The second, about the conquest of Peru, was published in 1617. It was first published in English in London in 1685, translated by Sir Paul Rycaut and titled The Royal Commentaries of Peru. More than a century and a half later, in 1758 when the uprising against colonial oppression led by Tupac Amaru II gained momentum, Charles III of Spain banned the Comentarios from being published in the Quechua language in Lima or distributed there on account of its "dangerous" content. The book was not printed again in the Americas until 1918, but copies continued to be circulated secretly. It was translated and printed in English in 1961 in the United States as The Incas, and in another edition in 1965 as Royal Commentaries of the Incas. (See below) Honors Cusco's main stadium, Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega is named after him. 1965, Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in Lima, Peru, was named in his honor In Rome, Italy, near Villa Borghese there is a statue dedicated to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega which was erected in 1967. A similar statue, dated 1973, stands in the Plaza República del Perú in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Further reading Primary sources Garcilaso de la Vega, The Florida of the Inca, trans. John and Jeannette Varner. 1951. Garcilaso de la Vega El Inca , Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru , trans. Harold V. Livermore. 1965. Secondary sources Brading, D.A. "Inca Humanist" in The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State. New York: Cambridge University Press 1991, pp. 255–71. Schreffler, Michael J. and Jessica Welton. "Garcilaso de la Vega and the 'New Peruvian Man': José Sabogal's frescoes at the Hotel Cusco," Art History 33, (January/February 2010): 124–149. See also Fray Martín de Murúa Guaman Poma Blas Valera Diego Fernández References External links Volume 1: Histoire de la conquete de la Floride, From the Collections at the Library of Congress Volume 2: Histoire de la conquete de la Floride, From the Collections at the Library of Congress