LEON, Peter Cicca de, author of the history of Peru. He left Spain, his native country, at thirteen years of age, in order to go into America, where he resided seventeen years, and observed so many remarkable things, that he resolved to commit them to writing. The first part of his history was printed at Seville in 1553. He began it 1541, and ended it in 1550. He was at Lima, the capital of the kingdom of Peru, when he gave the finishing stroke to it, and was then thirty-two years of age.