The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman: A Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543
Translated From an Original and Inedited Manuscript in the National Library at Madrid, With Notes and an Introduction

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Introduction
To the reader
Dedication
1. I begin life
2. How I set out, in the name of God
3. Of what happened to me in Barcelona
4. Of what happened to me in the expedition against the Moors
5. How they attacked the Moors
6. What happened to me afterwards
7. Of what happened to me in Naples
8. Of what happened to me in Rome and Cologne
9. Of what happened at Valenciennes
10. How I set out from Seville to go into banishment
11. What happened to me in Alicante, and on board the Venetian ship
12. What the emperor said in reply to the dispatch of the governor, and what happened afterwards
13. What happened to me afterwards
14. What happened to me at Majorca
15. How I went to Iviça
16. How we fared in the battle, and how I challenge Barbaroja
17. How I departed from the port in which I disembarked the soldiers
18. What happened to me in Seville
19. How, after I went to the court, I found the Marquis of Ayamonte, and all the grandees of the kingdom, who had been summoned by the emperor, at Valladolid
and what happened afterwards
20. How I was presented to the emperor, and what happened respecting the recent affair at Seville
21. What passed with the emperor, our lord, when I went to give an account of the charge which he had entrusted to me, in the reduction of Majorca, and defence of Iviça
22. How I fared with the Residendencia
and how I became a courtier, and went to Portugal
23. How I dined with the Infanta of Portugal
24. What afterwards befell me with the Emperor
25. The hostility of the Bishop of Oman, the King's confessor, against me
26. How the emperor was married, and the reward which his wife gave me
27. How I receive a pension
28. How I fared in my attempt to obtain the habit of Santiago
29. The emperor goes to Italy, and I am banished for trying to kill the accountant
30. What happened to me in my banishment
31. How I returned to court
32. How once more I departed from the court
33. The following letter was one which I wrote to another knight, named Pero Mexia
34. This is a letter which the Bishop of Escalas wrote to me
35. What happened to me after my return to Seville, and how I set out for the Indies
36. What happened to me on the ocean
37. What happened during the voyage to the Indies
38. I arrive at the island of Española, and afterwards I resolve to go to Peru
39. How I crossed the Isthmus of Panama
40. How I arrived in the land of Peru
41. Of the Indians of Peru, and of Atabalipa, who was killed by the Spaniards
42. I arrive at Piura, in the province of Peru, and afterwards go to the City of Kings
43. What happened to me in the principal city of Peru, which is now called the City of Kings, and of my first interview with his lordship the governor
44. How I departed from this city, which is called Lima in the language of the Indians, and by us the City of Kings, and came to the great city of Cuzco
45. Of the governor Francisco Pizarro
46. How the Virgin Mary helped us on her holy day
47. Diego Almagro arrives in Cuzco
48. Of what happened to myself principally
49. I have seen all things in the world, and for this I give all the praise to God alone, who is Sovereign Lord
50. Don Diego de Almagro encamps at Huaytara, and I write to the friar
51. What happened in the war between these two governors
52. How the governor sallied forth from the city of Cuzco
53. The death of the governor Don Diego de Almagro
54. I return to Spain, where I am imprisoned by the Royal Council of the Indies
and how I receive favours from Prince Philip, our Lord
55. I arrive at Seville
56. The letter which I wrote to the emperor, as soon as he arrived in Spain
57. This is a letter which I wrote from Peru, to the most illustrius Duke of Medina Sidonia
58. A letter from an aged knight, in reply to one which I had written to him, asking him to inform me respecting my lineage

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