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Letters from Mexico by Hernán Cortés
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Letters from Mexico

by Hernán Cortés

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El capitán Cortés redacta estas cartas para relatarle al Rey de España sus avances militares, para adularlo también, lo notamos en el lenguaje que utiliza. La importancia de esta obra para la literatura es rescatar las primeras impresiones que se tuvieron de una cultura a punto de ser aniquilada. ( )
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We have reason to believe that Your Royal Highnesses have been informed, by letters of Diego Velázquez, the admiral's lieutenant in the island of Fernandina (Cuba), of a new land that was discovered in these parts some two years ago more or less, and which was first called Cozumel and later Yucatan, without it being either the one or the other as Your Royal Highnesses shall see from our report.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0300090943, Paperback)

Hernan Cortes's Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden's English translation has been prepared from a close examination of the earliest surviving manuscript and of the first printed editions, and he also provides a new introduction offering a bold and innovative interpretation of the nature of the conquest and Cortes's involvement in it. J. H. Elliot's introductory essay explains Cortes's conflicts with the Crown and with Diego Velazquez, the governor of Cuba.

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Yale University Press

Three editions of this book were published by Yale University Press.

Editions: 0300090943, 0300037996, 0300037244

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