Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita was born and raised in Santa Fe de Bogotá, and his Historia General is an all-encompassing narrative of the Spanish invasion of the region that came to be known as the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama). The engraved medallions decorating the title page show fictitious portraits of Muisca leaders, copied from representations of the Inca in Peru, as well as imagined battle scenes of their conquest. Piedrahita’s influential history had less to do with investigating the Indigenous past than with inventing a compelling narrative for foreign audiences.