The transformations of Araucania from Valdivia's letters to Vivar's chronicle Book

	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Incidents and Images of the Life of Pedro de Valdivia (1498?-1554)	7
	Pedro de Valdivia's Birthdate	9
	Valdivia's Homeland in Extremadura	9
	Valdivia's Silence about his Homeland and Extremenian Names he Gives to Chile	15
	Valdivia an Hidalgo?	17
	Possible Routes to Valdivia's Acquisition of Writing Skills and Rhetorical Technique	20
	Valdivia's Military History	22
	In Between Wars: Salamanca or Zalamea	24
	At Home in Castuera	25
	Valdivia Goes to Peru by Way of Venezuela	26
	Valdivia Goes to Chile	28
	Valdivia is Arrested and Returned to Peru	29
	On Valdivia and Greed	31
	Valdivia as Poblador	35
	Valdivia's Wife Dona Marina Ortiz de Gaete	36
	Valdivia's Mistress Ines Suarez	39
Ch. 2	The Rhetorical and Narrative Dimensions of Valdivia's Letters of Conquest	55
	The Literary Analysis of Valdivia's Letters	56
	A Description of Valdivia's Letters	60
	The Sixteenth-Century Debate about Letter Writing	63
	The Classification to Valdivia's Letters	66
	The Oratorical Structure of Valdivia's Letters	68
	The Salutatio (Salutation)	68
	The Valedictio (Valediction)	69
	The Exordium (Introduction)	70
	The Narraizo (Narration)	74
	The Emplotment of Romance in Valdivia's Letters	75
	The Sinister Landscape and the Unworthy Enemy: the Atacama Desert and the Copiapo Indians of Northern Chile	77
	The Enemies of the Heroes of Romance: the Aconcagua and Mapocho Indians of the Central Valley	80
	The Landscape of Plenty Reconstituted	86
	Displacement into Another World: Valdivia's Return to Peru and the Suppression of the Rebel Pizarro	88
	Valdivia's Ambivalence about the Other Heroes of Romance, the Araucanian Indians South of the Bio-Bio River	90
	The Bride of Romance, Undelivered	96
Ch. 3	Geronimo de Vivar's Coronica y Rrelacion Copiosa y Verdadera de los Rreynos de Chile [1558]: Epic Configuration, Reliance on the Letters of Pedro de Valdivia and Use as a Source by Alonso de Ercilla	111
	Vivar and his Chronicle	112
	Who Was Geronimo de Vivar?	112
	Vivar's Intended Audience and his Purposes for Writing	118
	Synchronic Description and Diachronic Perspectives in Vivar's Chronicle	120
	The Despoblado and the Marvelous	122
	Vivar's Valdivia as Epic Hero	124
	The Fear-Turned-Wrath of the Scourged Copiapo Indians	127
	Episodic Variety: the Example of Alonso de Monroy among the Copiapo Indians	130
	Valdivia's Letters and Vivar's Chronicle	135
	Valdivia and Vivar on the Central Valley Indians: Worthy Opponents for an Epic Hero?	136
	The Conquest as the Will of God: Nature and Miracles	145
	The Araucanians: the True Indian Heroes of Vivar's Chronicle as Elaborated on the Basis of Valdivia's Letters	148
	Vivar's Chronicle as a Source for Ercilla's La Araucana	150
	Lautaro's Heroism and the Death of Valdivia	151
	The Contest Scene	154
	Galvarino, Fresia, and the Death of Caupolican	157
	"The Exhortation of the Mutilated Galvarino"	157
	"The Imprisonment and Impalement of Caupolican"	160
	Araucanian Cannibalism in Vivar's Chronicle	165
	App.: Background	185
App. A	Valdivia's First Infiltration into Araucanian Territory	186
App. B	Gonzalo Pizarro's Rebellion in Peru	188
App. C	Valdivia's Southern Campaign Resumed	195
	Bibliography	207