A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Capillana
CAPILLANA,
A Peruvian princess, who, having become a widow very young, retired from court to the country, about the time that Pizarro appeared on the coast. Capillana received kindly the persons he had sent to reconnoitre, and expressed a desire to see the general Pizarro came, and an attachment soon sprang up between them. He endeavoured to convert Capillana to the Christian faith, but for some time without success; however, while studying the Spanish language, she became a Christian. On the death of Pizarro, in 1541, she retired again to her residence in the country. In the library of the Dominicans of Peru, a manuscript of hers is preserved, in which are painted, by her, ancient Peruvian monuments, with a short historical explanation in Castilian. There are also representations of many of their plants, with curious dissertations on their properties.