Soldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expeditions to the New World. The son of a prominent regidor of Medina del Campo, Diaz del Castillo left home...
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,...
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the worlds largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps,...
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution...
En estas páginas se presenta una selección de los párrafos más iluminados de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. Se trata de las descripciones más apasionadas y asombradas que se quedar&iacut...
Este título se compone de 3 volúmenes, encuadernados en cartoné, de gran formato. El volumen primero recoge el texto facsimilar de la edición manuscrita en Guatemala (año 1568), el segundo volumen recoge de manera facsim...
Something more than an historical document of the first importance..his narrative is so readable that ones interest and admiration are equally divided between the stupendous events he records and the charming revelations of his own character. Saturday...
Fifty years after the event Bernal Diaz (1498-1580), who served under Cortes, wrote this account of the march from the coast, Montezuma's death, the massacre of the Spaniards and the eventual capture of the capital of Mexico.