Antonio de León Pinelo was a Spanish-colonial historian

Historian

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 (1589 – 1660).

Pinelo was born in Cordova de Tucuman

Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...

, and educated in the College of the Jesuits of Lima. He travelled to Spain

Spain

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 in 1612 and became attorney of the council of the Indies

Indies

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. Then, he became judge of the tribunal of La Contratacion in Seville, succeeding Gil Gonzalez Davila

Gil González Dávila

Gil González Dávila was a Spanish Conquistador and the first European to arrive in present-day Nicaragua.González Dávila first appears in historical records in 1508, when he received a royal commission to examine accounts and tax records of estates. He probably traveled soon afterward to Santo...

 in 1658 in the post of historian of the Indies. He died in Seville

Seville

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Antonio de Leon Pinelo maintained at great length that Biblical Paradise was situated in America.

The "cedularios" permitted initiating the compiling works, because they provided order to legal texts. Using those as a base, several Spanish jurists started writing the so called "summaries", which were extracts of a new law or a mixture of several laws about the same theme. In this work, one of the first was Diego de Zorrilla, whose work was then revised by Rodrigo de Aguiar and lastly by Antonio de Leon Pinelo, who prepared a new project and in 1628 published the summaries of the 4 first books so they could be revised.

External links

• Spanish-language biography www.lp.edu.pe/hnos_pinelo.htm