El oficio de lengua de un indio bilingüe de Chachapoyas Perú-Siglo XVI

Abstract

This article’s main objective is to reconstruct the life of a bilingual Indian —Juan de Albarado, native of Chachapoyas—, based on data of a man that excelled in the exercise of the sword and the pen achieving the highest Renaissance ideal, that is, as an Indian soldier in favor of the crown and as officialinterpreter of the Audience of Lima. The revised documentary sources (amemory and an interrogation) also contain illustrative examples of the linguistic and legal competence of an Indian interpreter of the colonial period.