Abstract
This article illuminates essential and often-neglected legal and political contexts for the production of “classical” accounts of the conquest of America written by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557), Bartolomé de las Casas (c. 1474–1566) and Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549–1626). Biographical details regarding these authors extracted from legal cases reveal pecuniary and professional interests that influenced writings about the conquest of the Americans even beyond their own works. Unbeknown to generations of scholars, these men's litigious and political careers have left their mark on official archives and even Don Quixote.
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