Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Verdugo, Vicente

​VERDUGO, Vicente (vair-doo'-go), Peruvian historian, b. in Cuzco about 1690; d. in Rome, Italy, in 1775. He became a Jesuit, and was su- perior of their houses at Cuzco and Lima, canon of Cuzco, and professor of history at Quito. After mastering the Quichua language and several other Indian dialects, he collected an important library of ancient documents concerning the early history of South America and its conquest. Toward 1750 he was sent to Rome and became librarian of the Roman college. His works include " Historia de las guerras civiles en Peru en el tiempo del Inca Atahualpa " (Rome, 1754) ; " Cronica veridica de la conquista de la provincia de Cuzco" (2 vols., 1756) ; and " Informacion de lo obrado en la pro- vincia del Cuzco," a manuscript which is preserved in the Roman college.

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