'DISCOVERY' CHARTS A HISTORY OF WORLD TRAVEL AS SUBJUGATION.(SPOTLIGHT)(Review) Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) (2/18/1996)
...the Crusades . . . and some you might not, like one Lope Aguirre, "a Spanish sergeant who spent 54 years in the conquest...colorful cast of characters, from the aforementioned Aguirre to Mary Kingsley, a dispirited Britisher who admitted...

Regional depiction in contemporary film. The Geographical Review (10/1/1993)
...film (Mast and Kawin 1992). AGUIRRE Director Werner Herzog, a major...postwar German cinema, filmed Aguirre, the Wrath of God along the Urubamba...historical figure, the Basque renegade Lope de Aguirre, who rebelled against Spanish...

[ WE ARE in the 16th century ] The Washington Post (1/26/2001)
...somewhere on the Amazon. Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), a demented...crawling with squeaking marmosets. Aguirre is very much at the end of the...gold of El Dorado has failed. And Aguirre has retreated into the cool, grim...

Herzog and Kinski's 'Insanity and Genius' The Washington Post (5/30/2003)
...make "Fitzcarraldo." The 1972 "Aguirre" is Herzog's epic story of a demented Spanish adventurer, Don Lope de Aguirre (Kinski), and his bid to find...Monday night's screening of "Aguirre" (all shows at 6:30): June...

THE PROBLEMS CHANGE FOR SPANISH CINEMA The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (2/15/1987)
...century conquistador and outlaw, Lope de Aguirre, the same figure depicted as floating...in Werner Herzog's film, "Aguirre: the Wrath of God." "It's...happened, which was very cruel. Aguirre really did kill his own daughter...

POLE TAKES BRUTAL LOOK AT ALIENATION The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (5/17/1988)
...of 16th-century Conquistadore Lope de Aguirre, whose expedition down the Amazon...comic strip in Werner Herzog's "Aguirre: The Wrath of God." The trouble...and the half-baked notion that Aguirre was a freedom fighter can save...

Laura P. Zuntini de Izarra, ed. A Literatura da Virada do Seculo: Fim das Utopias?(Book Review) Utopian Studies (3/22/2002)
...rewrites colonial history by placing the historical figure of the Spanish conquistador, Lope de Aguirre, in different historical time periods. Aguirre discovers utopias in the Inca city of Macchu Picchu and in twentieth-century political...

The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589. Canadian Journal of History (8/1/1993)
...The archetypical personification of this process was Lope de Aguirre, who became disenchanted with his leader, led a plot...degenerated into senseless cruelty. In Bodmer's view, Aguirre's rebellion was a misguided attempt to return to an...

Heart of darkness.(Lifestyle) Sunday Tribune (South Africa) (4/20/2008)
...known of them is the ferocious Basque soldier of fortune Lope de Aguirre, remembered not as a discoverer but as a mutineer...false: there is nothing on that river but despair." Aguirre's story takes us into that upriver "heart of darkness...