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Fray Pedro De Aguado, O.F.M.–Date of Baptism*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
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Anyone interested in early New World historians recognizes the difficulties encountered in reconstructing the lives of those scholars who, in the midst of wars or in the peace of convents, or even enjoying the fruits of an office in Spain, wrote books about the events in the New World. Many of these scholars were conscious that they were writing about tremendous happenings in the history of mankind and, weighed down by such responsibility, took little care in leaving any traces about their own lives. They were writing works of history, not autobiography. Investigators into this early New World history have been obliged to rely on conjectures concerning the personal life of these authors when the archives produced no documentation or when their patience has been exhausted before the enormous task of classifying millions of pages written by the indifferent hand of the salaried copyist or by the pen of authors or partakers in the colonizing activities in America.
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[Editor’s Note: In the October, 1955 issue of THE AMERICAS (Vol. XII, No. 2), Dr. Juan Friede of Colombia published a documentary note entitled “New Archival Data concerning Fray Pedro Aguado, O.F.M.” Dr. Guillermo Morón of Venezuela has taken somewhat violent issue with his conclusions and presents herewith some pages soon to be published in a critical edition of the works of the Franciscan historian. THE AMERICAS is happy to allow both sides of the controversy to be heard.]
References
1 The author is referring to Dr. Juan Friede. See editor’s note above.
2 Atanasio López, “Fray Pedro Aguado: Historiador de Venezuela y Colombia,” Archivo Ibero-Americano, XVI (julio-agosto, 1921), 24–53; Archivo General de Indias, 73-2-27.
3 Thus Aguado mentions that he was elected Provincial in 1574, while other documents speak of 1573 as the date. [Editor’s Note: A good discussion of this is found in an article not mentioned by Dr. Morón, published recently in THE AMERICAS (XI, 4 [April, 1955], 539–574) by Dr. Orlando Fals-Borda. The pertinent footnotes are Nos. 4 and 25.]
4 Caracciolo Parra, “Libros de la conquista: La Historia del Padre Aguado,” Boletín de la Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela, XLI (Segunda Epoca; Caracas, enero-marzo, 1936), 19.
5 [Editor’s Note: If Parra’s method of dating is followed, Aguado would have been twenty-two years old in 1560 when he came to America, and thirty-seven years old in 1575, when he returned as Provincial to Spain.]
6 Juan Friede, op. cit., p. 198.
7 I am not ignorant of the arbitrary changing of family names which occurred frequently in that age.
8 Juan Flórez de Ocariz, Genealogías del Nuevo Reino de Granada, II (Madrid, 1674), árbol 27, p. 97.
9 Nomenclator de las Ciudades, Villas, Lugares, Aldeas y demás entidades de población de España formado por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística con referencia al 31 de diciembre de 1950: Provincia de Madrid (Madrid, n.d.).
10 Diccionario Geográfico-Estadístico-Histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar, XV (Madrid, 1849), 280–281.