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Can anybody verify any of this? It is my understanding that although Aguirre existed, much of what is presented here is legend invented by Werner Herzog.
I don't think that this page is entirely factual. I believe the part about the flogging is from a novel about Aguirre. I will check some sources and get back to you. -- Wuapinmon 20:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)wuapinmon
Can anybody provide any evidence as to the location of the Spanish original of the letter for which an English translation is provided at the bottom of the page? Is it in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville? Have there been any published English translations or are we to rely on some relatively inscrutable internet translation? The page for the translation only cites that it is "translated from the version published in A. Arellano Moreno (org.), Documentos para la Historia economica de Venezuela, (Caracas: Univ. Central, 1961)" SCRA5071 01:26, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Here you have an authoritative source in english
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1561aguirre.html
-- Bentaguayre ( talk) 01:25, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
The article is very POV and based mostly in the distorted POVs of Herzog (I hate that film! - what a pathetic mixture of tragedy and bad jokes!) and Spanish institutions. It needs a throughout review. -- Sugaar 21:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Did they ever figure out what made Aguirre so crazy? Has he been diagnosed a sociopath by modern experts? 24.91.121.27 00:51, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
It's worth pointing out that hardly any of the occurrences recounted on the Aguirre page come from the Herzog film. Herzog's film contains no backstory whatsoever, portrays Aguirre's expedition as an offshoot of one of Pizarro's expeditions, is narrated by a fictional priest, and ends with Aguirre alone on a raft floating on the river. Nothing about Aguirre being flogged, or chasing a judge, or killing his own daughter, or being executed. There's the bit where he claims to be the king of Peru, though. Slocombe ( talk) 22:11, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
I removed this sentence: ", and by Andy Rakich in Tears of God in 2007," because the only reference to this film is a youtube video which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtDoPK03hKU and is clearly a student film which mocks up Herzog's "Aguirre: Wrath of God." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monsieurpeanut ( talk • contribs) 06:15, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
I found the following note, embedded in an HTML comment, at the top of the page: “the pencil 'portrait' of Aguirre widely reproduced on the Internet is a fictional modern work. It has no meaningful significance.” I assume it refers to the portrait which was further down on the page, and which is now in the usual place at the top. Certainly comments on the portrait have a place in the article, if backed up by a citation. Bob Burkhardt ( talk) 22:34, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
This article is virtually without citations, and I would say that everything biographical after the statement "he participated in the overthrow and killing of Ursúa and his successor, Fernando de Guzmán, whom he ultimately succeeded" is quite dubious. Historians disagree greatly about what happened once Lope de Aguirre headed into the interior of South America; I do not believe there is even any consensus that he made it to the Atlantic. This desperately needs citation, and probably from more than one independent source because the facts are in dispute among reputable sources. - Jmabel | Talk 18:00, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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