BALBOA, VASCO NUNEZ DE

Additional reading The standard biography in English, well-documented and well-written, is Kathleen Romoli, Balboa of Darin: Discoverer of the Pacific (1953), which also contains an extensive bibliography of sources. There is a judicious survey of Balboa's career in Amando Meln y Ruiz de Gordejuela, Los primeros tiempos de la colonizacin. Cuba y las Antillas. Magallanes y la primera vuelta del mundo (1952). For a discussion of Balboa's route to the Pacific, see Angel Rubio, La ruta de Balboa y el descubrimiento del Ocano Pacfico (1965). All modern accounts take as their points of departure the great chronicles of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, De orbe novo, trans. by Francis A. MacNutt, 2 vol. (1912, reprinted 1970); Gonzalo Fernndez de Oviedo y Valds, Historia general y natural de las Indias, ed. by Juan Prez de Tudela Bueso, 5 vol. (1959); and Bartolom de las Casas, Historia de las Indias, ed. by Augustin Millares Carlo and preliminary study by Lewis Hanke, 2nd ed., 3 vol. (1965). See also C.L.G. Anderson, Life and Letters of Vasco Nez de Balboa (1941).