Short answers, pulled from the story.
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was a chronicler and writer born on the 12th of April 1539 in Cuzco, Peru. He was the natural son of a Spanish conquistador, Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas, and an Inca noblewoman, Palla Chimpu Ocllo, granddaughter of Huayna Capac. He is known as the first author born in the Americas whose work entered the western literary canon.
Comentarios Reales de los Incas is Garcilaso's best-known work, published in Lisbon in 1609. Its first volume covered Inca life and culture; its second volume, about the conquest of Peru, appeared posthumously in 1617. The first English translation, titled The Royal Commentaries of Peru, was published in London in 1685.
In the 1780s, Charles III banned the Comentarios from being published in the Quechua language in Lima or distributed there, citing its "dangerous" content. The ban coincided with the uprising led by Tupac Amaru II against colonial rule. The book was not printed again in the Americas until 1918, though copies circulated secretly in the interim.
La Florida del Inca, published in Lisbon in 1605, recounted Hernando de Soto's expedition through Florida. Garcilaso drew on the expedition's own records and on information he collected over many years. Historians Jerald T. Milanich and Charles M. Hudson have identified serious problems with its sequence of events, and some scholars regard it as more a work of literature than a factual history.
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died in Córdoba, Spain, on the 23rd of April 1616, though existing documents are imprecise enough that his death may have occurred up to two days earlier. He was seventy-seven years old.
Cusco's main stadium, Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega, and the Regional Historical Museum of Cusco, housed in his former home, both bear his name. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University in Lima was named in his honor in 1965. Statues dedicated to him stand near Villa Borghese in Rome, erected in 1967, and in the Plaza República del Perú in Buenos Aires, dated 1973.