HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, ANTONIO DE 1625), Spanish historian, secretary to Vespasian Gonzago and first historiographer of the Indies. His Historic general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano (16o 1) is borrowed largely from other mss., especially from those of Bartolome de Las Casas and of Cervantes de Salazar. The work is, on the whole, accurate and unprejudiced, though confused. It was translated into English in 1740.