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Memorial to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in Medina del Campo, Spain. Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of ...
Castanheda was the natural son of a royal officer, who held the post of judge in Goa.In 1528, he accompanied his father to Portuguese India and to the Moluccas.There he remained ten years, from 1528 to 1538, during which he gathered as much information as he could about the discovery and conquest of India by the Portuguese, in order to write a book on the subject.
Álvaro Enrigue's new novel, "You Dreamed of Empires," recounts the fateful meeting of Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma that doomed the Aztec civilizations. How Aztec Mexico was lost in translation ...
His Chronicle of the Siege and Capture of Ceuta, a supplement (third part) to Lopes's Chronicle of King John I, dates from 1449 to 1450, [1] and three years later he completed the first draft of the Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea, our authority for the early Portuguese voyages of discovery down the African coast and in the ...
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other is a book by Tzvetan Todorov first published in 1982, detailing Spanish colonials' contact with natives upon the discovery of the Americas. Todorov analyzes texts and arguments from Spanish figures such as Pedro de Valdivia and Francisco de Vitoria. Todorov argues that the latter "demolishes ...
Zárate based his work on several reports, although he mainly follows two of them: the first one is a manuscript that belonged to Viceory Pedro de La Gasca that recounts the uprising of Gonzalo Pizarro, while the second one is the report of Rodrigo Lozano, mayor of Trujillo, which Zárate mentions at the beginning of his book; Lozano's ...
The handwritten account is composed of 269 pages and contains his voyage to the New World, being followed by the history of the discovery and the conquest of America by the Spaniards. Another manuscript of the text is located in the India Office Library in London ( MS 719 ), and it is known that several manuscripts existed in the libraries of ...