His translation from guevara, however, marked the beginning of a new fashion.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Interest in classical scholarship was nearly always associated with interest in the new religious doctrines, and hence the new theories of translation were attached impartially either to renderings of the classics or to versions of contemporary theological works, valuable on account of the close, careful thinking which they contained, as contrasted with the more superficial charm of writings like those of guevara.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
There was in the island a young Spanish aristocrat, Fernando de guevara by name, one of the many who had come out in the hope of enjoying himself and making a fortune quickly, whose more than outrageously dissolute life in San Domingo had caused Columbus to banish him thence; and he was now living near Xaragua with a cousin of his, Adrian de Moxeca, who had been one of the ringleaders in Roldan's conspiracy.
"Christopher Columbus, Volume 6 And The New World Of His Discovery, A Narrative"
Filson Young