The Regal Eagle and the Most Evil: El Marañon by Diego de Aguilar y Córdoba (16th century)
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This article focuses on El Marañon by Diego de Aguilar y Córdoba. The book refers the events that surrounded the unfortunate expedition headed by Pedro Ursúa in 1559, whose main purpose was finding the mythical lands of Omagua and El Dorado. The article states that Aguilar's text could be included in a corpus of travel accounts from the 16th-Century defined as imperial writing of the edges, on one hand, and it would be part of a dynamic process named like sedimented readings, on the other one.
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