Abstract This article offers two contributions to scholarship on Inca Garcilaso’s Comentarios reales. First, this piece examines the conflicting epistemological regimes deployed by Garcilaso. Second, it offers an interpretation of Garcilaso’s comments about two poems: “Kaylla llapi” (Here, close by) and “Sumaq ñusta” (Noble lady). The article concludes with an invitation for scholars to consider conflicting epistemologies contained within the same work.
Leonardo Velloso-Lyons (Sun,) studied this question.