. But what is the moral of this story? Does not the writing of this history itself tell
us that this so
ldier has chose
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n to be might
y with his tongue where he co
uld not be with his
sword? Elsewhe
re the poet speaks conquest's own eulogy: "Through history those men are heroes whose deeds have been given proper recognition by the historian's pen" (35). He already senses that the pen does not render the glory of the sword immutable; in this historical moment, the pen takes up a work that the sword itself cannot perform. Thus while the old prestige economy of conquest may momentarily enter into
its present he
re, it does so at the expense of its own practice: mandated out of existence by the monarch, the performance of Spanish conquest finds its refuge, and later a final resting place, in a practice of writing. When the epic is reviewed by the royal censors in 1609, it seems at first to succeed on Villagra's terms. The censor Professor Espinel writes, "The verses are many and though lacking in imagination
al worth, are a
true and connected history" (Villagra 269). However, in 1614, Villagra is charged and found guilty
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the conquest of New Mexico. The poet-soldier had apparently taken up writing in New Mexico once before, pr
- ior to his Historia: "From that place he wrote a letter to the viceroy of Spain, praising the high quali
- ty, richness, and fertility of the provinces of New Mexico, when the opposite is true, as it is a sterile and poor land" (D/O 1116
a's writing is found guilty,
- in other words, of lacking truth and offering far too much im
- agination. Onate, in turn, is also
- tried and found guilty of brutality
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- in New Mexico at the ba
- ttle of Acoma. In the end, the law exiles bo
- th men from the New Mex
- ico they "conquered," and both die stripped of t
Contact heir desired military honors. Despite
