CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas
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Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva-Espaņa. Madrid: |
| Diaz's story is a rambling epic, in which Montezuma is a great and powerful emperor, his
kingdom vast and wealthy, and his subjects numerous and fierce. The material splendor of the Aztec empire make
it a worthy plum for the Spanish empire. Diaz never doubts the legitimacy of Spanish claims of ownership: to be
Christian and Spanish is to be powerful, and to be powerful is to possess.
Written in the later 16th century, but not published until the 17th, the "True History" shown here is the first edition. | |
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