TOLEDO, Fernando Alvarez de, Spanish soldier and author, lived in the last half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th. He was a private soldier, but by feats of daring rose to the rank of captain in Chile. He wrote a poem called "Puren Indomito," which, after having been lost for more than two centuries, was discovered by Diego Burros Arana and published by him, forming the first series of the "Bibliotheque Americaine" (Paris, 1862).

The work deserves attention not for its literary qualities, but for being a history of the Spanish soldiers who conquered Chile by one of themselves. The author is very candid in his pictures of the corruption and cruelty of his countrymen. Alfonso de Ovalle, in his "Historica Relación del Reyno de Chile" (Rome, 1646), quotes the poem as an authority. He adds that Diego Rosales, author of a voluminous history of Chile, written about 1650, has followed the narrative of Toledo page by page. Gonzalez Barcia, in his "Historiadores primitivos de Indias," quotes the "Puren Indomito" in the chapter that is devoted to the histories of Chile; but it afterward sank into oblivion until it was discovered in the library of Madrid.

TOLEDO, Fernando Alvarez de, Spanish soldier and author, lived in the last half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th. He was a private soldier, but by feats of daring rose to the rank of captain in Chili. He wrote a poem called "Puren Indomito," which, after having been lost for more than two centuries, was discovered by Diego Burros Arana and published by him, forming the first series of the "Bibliotheque Americaine" (Paris, 1862). The work deserves attention not for its literary qualities, but for being a history of the Spanish soldiers who conquered Chili by one of themselves. The author is very candid in his pictures of the corruption and cruelty of his countrymen. Alfonso de Ovalle, in his "Histerica Relacion del Reyno de Chile" (Rome, 1646), quotes the poem as an authority. He adds that Diego Rosales, author of a voluminous history of Chili, written about 1650, has followed the narrative of Toledo page by page. Gonzalez Barcia, in his "Historiadores primitivos de Indias," quotes the "Puren Indomito" in the chapter that is devoted to the histories of Chili ; but it afterward sank into oblivion until it was discovered in the library of Madrid.

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