Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco’s first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spain against her renegade husband.
So begins the labyrinthine legal tale and engrossing drama of an explorer and his two wives, skillfully reconstructed through the expert and original archival research of Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Drawing on the remarkable records from the trial, the narrative of Francisco’s adventures provides a window into daily life in sixteenth-century Spain, as well as the mentalité and experience of conquest and settlement of the New World. Told from the point of view of the conquerors, Francisco’s story reveals not only the lives of the middle class and minor nobility but also much about those at the lower rungs of the social order and relations between the sexes.
In the tradition of Carlo Ginzberg’s The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis’ The Return of Martin Guerre, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance illuminates an historical period—the world of sixteenth-century Spain and Peru—through the wonderful and unusual story of one man and his two wives.
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. Justice Be Fulfilled
- The Indies
- I. She Who Died
- II. Hardship and Risk
- III. Neither Rectitude nor Tranquility
- IV. The Healthiest in Peru
- V. This City Is Traitorous
- VI. This Is the Head
- VII. Such Little Penitence
- VIII. Kissed Her on the Cheek
- IX. The Crown Jewel
- X. They Would Kill Me
- XI. Silver Common as Copper
- XII. On the First Ship
- XIII. I Promise You
- XIV. Relieve My Conscience
- XV. Used Force
- XVI. Justice Will Not Be Lost
- XVII. She Should Receive
- XVIII. No Case Is So Expensive
- XIX. In Truthful Ignorance
- The Trial
- XX. He Should Be Jailed
- XXI. In Search of the Fugitive
- XXII. I Have Presented Myself
- XXIII. Are You Married?
- XXIV. This Claim
- XXV. Foul Odors and Vapors
- XXVI. I Consent
- XXVII. No Hope of Survival
- XXVIII. Give Me the City
- XXIX. A Wise Man
- XXX. Shock and Great Sadness
- XXXI. Never Forgive the Nuns
- XXXII. He and She Knowing
- XXXIII. Married Life Together
- XXXIV. Compel and Force
- XXXV. Leave the House
- XXXVI. Contrary to the Truth
- XXXVII. Shall Not Meet
- XXXVIII. Carnal Intercourse
- XXXIX. To Sin Mortally
- Fateful Decisions
- XL. The Principal Houses
- XLI. I Am Despoiled
- XLII. And Gave Freedom
- XLIII. Perpetual Memory
- XLIV. Carry the Name
- XLV. Interred in My Chapel
- XLVI. From the Estate
- XLVII. He Had Consummated
- XLVIII. Has Not Fulfilled
- XLIX. As Good Brothers
- Epilogue. Treasures Upon Earth
- Glossary
- Currency and Measures
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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