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Title: Cuzco: a journey to the ancient capital of Peru; with an account of the history, language, literature, and antiquities of the Incas. And Lima: a visit to the capital and provinces of modern Peru; with a sketch of the viceregal government, history of the republic, and a review of the literature and society of Peru ..
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916
Subjects: Quechua language Peru Cuzco (Peru) Lima (Peru)
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of thepalace of Viracocha, on the east side of the greatsquare. It has a very handsome fagade, with two massivestone towers, and is still one of the greatest ornamentsof the city. The Dominicans were followed by the Franciscans,the Augustines, and the Mercedarios, who also foundedextensive monasteries ; the latter with most beautifulcloisters, supported by elaborately carved stone columnsand arches. Finally the Jesuits, introduced into Peruby the viceroy Castro in 1565, arrived in Cuzco.Their church, on the site of the palace of HuaynaCcapac, on the south side of the great square, withits richly carved front, lofty towers, and extensivecloisters, is by far the finest edifice of the kind in Peru. It was not long before nuns of the orders of SantaClara, Santa Teresa, and Santa Catalina, supplied theplaces of the virgins of the Sun. The gorgeous and stately ceremonials of the churchof Home now succeeded the festivals of the religion ofthe Sun; and, in place of the happy songs and dances
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CUZCO THE CITY OF THE IN CAS. 141 of the Incas, long monkish processions paraded thestreets of Cuzco. • Of these, the most important and magnificent wasthat on the festival of Corpus Christi, when, from theearliest period of Spanish ascendancy, a vast amountof wealth was yearly expended. In the little church of Santa Anna at Cuzco, thereis a very curious series of pictures, contemporaneouswith the conquest, illustrative of the procession of thecorpus Christi, which hecomes very interesting as arecord of the costumes of the Incas and Spaniards ofthe period. First march the four religious orders of Dominicans,Franciscans, Mercedarios, and Augustines, followed bythe corpus under a splendid canopy, attended by alarge body of priests and an old cavalier in black,with the order of Santiago on his shoulder—probablythe governor of the city. Then follow the elders ofeach parish, accompanied by a huge car, in which theirpatron saint is seated, and preceded by an Inca noblein full national c

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  • bookyear:1856
  • bookdecade:1850
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Markham__Clements_R___Clements_Robert___Sir__1830_1916
  • booksubject:Quechua_language
  • booksubject:Peru
  • booksubject:Cuzco__Peru_
  • booksubject:Lima__Peru_
  • bookpublisher:London__Chapman_and_Hall
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