Sancho de la Hoz, Pedro
Pedro Sancho de la Hoz (1514 - 1547) was a Spanish merchant, conquistador, and chronicler who served as secretary to Francisco Pizarro. Nothing is known of his childhood in Spain. He accompanied Pizarro on the conquest of Peru from 1530 to 1534, and produced the first written description of the conquest and the city of Cuzco on his return. He would then be appointed in 1539 by Emperor Charles V as governor of the then-undiscovered lands south of the Strait of Magellan, Terra Australis Incognita. Unfortunately, on his return to South America, he came to view an erstwhile partner, Pedro de Valdivia, as a rival for the largely imaginary position; on several occasions, he attempted to assassinate the man. Valdivia responded with remarkable tolerance, but his successor, Francisco de Villagra, had Pedro Sancho beheaded in 1547 for his conspiracies. Sancho's manuscript, which does not survive, was not committed to print until it appeared in the 1556 third volume of Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi.
Foundational First Printed Image of Cusco.
Il Cuscho Citta Principale Della Provincia Del Peru.
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This is the scarce 1565 issue of Giovanni Battista Ramusio's map of Cusco (Cuzco), Peru; it is the second edition of the first printed plan of the city based on a firsthand report. This image served as the basis for most illustrations of the city for nearly two centuries. It results from the report of the then-secretary to Francisco Pizarro, Pedro Sancho de la Hoz, who accompanied Pizarro in the conquest of Peru and wrote the first account of it on his return to Spain in 1534. That account was not printed until 1556, when Ramusio translated it into Italian. (more details)