A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies: read in Spanish (C2)
Read Las Casas’s Brevísima relación in Spanish. Level C2: long 16th-century sentences, a report to Prince Philip, with instant word translation.
Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (Bartolomé de las Casas)
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16th-century Spanish prose, long sentences built from chains of clauses, chronicle and legal vocabulary, old forms such as mesmo and dellos
This article contains the full text of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (written in 1542, printed in 1552), a friar’s report to Prince Philip on the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the Americas, with the Argumento and the Prólogo. It describes colonial violence against indigenous peoples, region by region. Level C2 suits readers who can follow sentences of about 47 words in 16th-century Spanish. You will learn the vocabulary of chronicles, law and argument.
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