The true history of the conquest of New Spain / Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; translated, with an introduction and notes, by Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584.

Contributor:

Burke, Janet, 1943-

Humphrey, Ted, 1941-

Standardized Title:

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. Selections. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.

Mexico.

History.

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.

Cortés, Hernán.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., [2012]

Summary:

Castillo, a soldier in Cortés's army, participated in the discovery and conquest of New Spain (which included much of North America below Canada, Mexico and most of the rest of Central America) in the early 1500s, and wrote of his experiences as an "ordinary" soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire. While it is certainly not the only translation of this historical narrative, translators Burke and Humphrey (ethics and Latin American intellectual history, Arizona State U.) took pains to remain true as true as possible to the original prose. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

1 I Am Bernal Díaz del Castillo 1

2 A Gentleman Named Hernando Cortés 11

3 On the Tenth Day of February, 1519, We Set Sail 25

4 I Am the Spaniard 33

5 Dona Marina, They Spread It around That She Had Died 54

6 We Ordered the Creation, Founding, and Settling of a Town 70

7 The Caciques and Papas Saw How Just We Were 91

8 We Left for Tlaxcala 108

9 We Entered This City on the 23rd of September, 1519 140

10 Our Road Was through Cholula 158

11 The Great Montezuma Stepped Out of the Litter 177

12 To Secure Our Lives, We Should Seize Montezuma 207

13 All Men Generally Desire Gold 230

14 Pánfilo de Narváez Was Coming by Sea 259

15 Alvarado Was Besieged and Mexico Was in Revolt 299

16 In Mexico They Elevated Another Lord 331

17 Guatemuz Should Come in Peace 356

18 Without the Brigantines We Could Not Invade 383

19 For Ninety-Three Days We Were Constantly Battling 417

20 Epilogue 440.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781603842907

160384290X

9781603842914

1603842918

OCLC:

751922092