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The broken spears : the Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico / edited and with an introduction by Miguel León-Portilla ; with a foreword by J. Jorge Klor De Alva ; translated from Nahuatl into Spanish by Angel Maria Garibay K. ; English translation by Lysander Kemp ; illustrations, adapted from original codices paintings, by Alberto Beltran.
Penn Museum Library - New Books Display F1230 .V5713 2025
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- Book
- Series:
- Beacon classics
- Standardized Title:
- Visión de los vencidos. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/08c32b63-2110-cb71-efa2-7d02b4aa784d
- Language:
- English
- Nahuatl
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Aztecs--First contact with other peoples--Sources.
- Aztecs.
- Indians of Mexico--First contact with other peoples--Sources.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Nahuatl literature--Translations into Spanish.
- Nahuatl literature.
- Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540--Sources.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xliii, 164 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Beacon Press Classics edition.
- Other Title:
- Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In this new edition of his classic, León-Portilla's work to unearth the voices of Aztec people from the past and the present continues to illuminate untold realities of colonization. His work includes accounts from those present at the time of the conquest of Mexico and has been expanded to include accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries since. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards
- First Reports of the Spaniards' Arrival
- The Messengers' Journeys
- Motecuhzoma's Terror and Apathy
- The Spaniards March on Tlaxcala and Cholula
- The Gifts of Gold : The God Tezcatlipoca Appears
- The Spaniards Are Welcomed in Tezcoco
- The Spaniards Arrive in Tenochtitlan
- The Massacre in the Main Temple during the Fiesta of Toxcatl
- The Night of Sorrows
- The Siege of Tenochtitlan
- Spanish Raids into the Besieged City
- The Surrender of Tenochtitlan
- The Story of the Conquest as Told by the Anonymous Authors of Tlatelolco
- Elegies on the Fall of the City.
- Notes:
- "[F]irst published in 1959 as Visión de los vencidos (Vision of the Vanquished)"--Foreword, page xi.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807019054
- 0807019054
- OCLC:
- 1517016217
- Publisher Number:
- 90104186101
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