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Antonio Valdés

Died in 1816

Antonio Valdés is a priest of colonial Peru, a doctor and parish priest in the Cuzco region. He is credited with the first surviving manuscript of a Quechua drama, set down in writing around 1770 to be performed; according to Clements Markham, the play was performed around 1775 before his friend José Gabriel Condorcanqui, who later took the name Túpac Amaru. Another friend, Justo Pastor Justiniani, copied his manuscript, which the Justiniani family then kept. He died in 1816 at a very advanced age, and the original passed to his nephew and heir, Narciso Cuentas, based at Tinta.

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