Impossible Histories annotations on the Incas

These are annotations for the fourth chapter of the book Impossible Histories. I’m not saying you need to keep a copy of IH open next to you as you read, but it might make some things clearer?

p. 59
•epigraph: The epigraph here was to be:

Conquerors are a class of men with whom, for most part, the world could well dispense.
§Carlyle, Essay on Burns (1828).

•No one has ever rooted for Pizarro: E. Clerihew Bentley, with his studied understatement, sums Pizarro up in a quatrain (from a 1905 collection o...