Resumen

NAKASHIMA, Roxana. Nuevos aportes sobre Lope Vázquez Pestaña: comerciante pionero, informante impensado y capitán experimentado del Río de la Plata (fines del siglo XVI - principios del XVII). Bol. Inst. Hist. Argent. Am. Dr. Emilio Ravignani [online]. 2024, n.60, pp.4-31. ISSN 0524-9767.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34096/bol.rav.n60.11976.

Through the analysis of travel accounts, protocol acts, official correspondence, information on merits and services and other documents, new light is shed to complete the biography of the Portuguese Lope Vázquez Pestaña, who is considered the first slave trader of the Río de la Plata. Likewise, his presence is identified in the travel account collection published by Richard Hakluyt, where he appears as an informant on the fate of different English expeditions to Spanish America.

The aim is thus, based on a specific case, to contribute to the study of the Portuguese presence in the region of the viceroyalty of Peru at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, and to the identification of the sources that Hakluyt could have used and edited to make his collection.

Palabras clave : travel accounts; merits and services; history of the Río de la Plata; circulation of information.

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