Raúl Porras Barrenechea

Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Peruvian diplomat, historian and politician.

Raúl Porras Barrenechea was a Peruvian diplomat, historian and politician. He was born in Pisco, Peru on March 23, 1897 and died in Lima, Peru on September 27, 1960. He was a teacher at the Anglo-Peruvian School. As a student during the 1950s Mario Vargas Llosa worked with Porras for four and one-half years and learned a great deal from him.^[1] Porras ran unsuccessfully for the rectorate of his alma mater, the National University of San Marcos, losing to Aurelio Miro Quesada.^[2] Later he was elected senator representing Lima, and was selected first vice president of the Senate.^[3] After that, during his second presidency of Peru, Manuel Prado Ugarteche appointed Porras foreign minister.^[4] Luis Alberto Sanchez wrote the prologue to Porras's posthumous book on Pizarro which was assembled by a number of Porras's followers.^[5] Since 1991, when the nuevo sol became the official currency of Peru, his portrait is on the S/. 20 banknote.

See also

• History of Peru

References

1. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 270.
2. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 288-9.
3. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 381.
4. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 399-400.
5. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 273.

Works

• Historia de los Límites del Perú: Texto dictado a los alumnos del Colegio Anglo-Peruano de Lima, conforme al programa oficial. (Lima: F. y E. Rosay. 1930)
• Las relaciones primitivas de la conquista del Perú. (Paris: Impr. Les Presses modernes. 1937)
• El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) (Lima: Lumen. 1946)
• Relación de la descendencia de Garci Pérez de Vargas (1596). Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Reproducción facsimilar del manuscrito original con un prólogo a cargo de Raúl Porras Barrenechea. (Lima: Instituto de Historia. 1951)
• El Inca Garcilaso, en Montilla, 1561-1614" : nuevos documentos hallados y publicados. (Lima: Instituto de Historia-Editorial San Marcos 1955)
• El Paisaje Peruano de Garcilaso a Riva Agüero. (Lima: Imprenta Santa María. 1955)
• Cartas del Perú, 1524-1543. (Lima: Sociedad de Bibliófilos Peruanos. 1959)
• Antología del Cusco. (Lima: Librería Internacional del Perú. 1961)
• Fuentes Históricas Peruanas: Apuntes de un curso universitario. (Lima: Instituto Raúl Porras Barrenechea. 1963)
• Los Cronistas del Perú. (Lima: Sanmartí Impresores. 1962)
• Pizarro (Lima: Editorial Pizarro. 1978)

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