Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1495–1584)
Autore di The Conquest of New Spain
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Díaz del Castillo was a soldier in the army of Hernán Cortés. He is best known for writing a classic memoir of the conquest of Mexico.
Fonte dell'immagine: Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Opere di Bernal Díaz del Castillo
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full… (1984) 53 copie
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full… (1979) 31 copie
The Fall of the Aztecs with Illustrations By the Conquered and Text By the Conquerors (1965) 2 copie
Ferdinand Cortes 1 copia
La Conquista d3 Nueva España IV 1 copia
La Conquista de Nueva España I 1 copia
Verdadera y Notable Relacion 1 copia
Historia Verdadera de la Conquista De La Nueva Espana por uno de sus conquistadores, Volume II 1 copia
Antología 1 copia
Opere correlate
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo XX (1997) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
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- Nome canonico
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
- Nome legale
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
- Data di nascita
- 1495
1492 - Data di morte
- 1584
c.1580 - Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Spain
- Luogo di nascita
- Medina del Campo, Spain
- Luogo di residenza
- Medina del Campo, Spain (birth)
La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala - Attività lavorative
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governor (Santiago de los Caballeros) - Breve biografia
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1495–1584) served under Cortés through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable hirstorical document and a spectacular epic. He was with Cortés when the latter sank the ships, thus committing the small band of conquistadors irrevocably to the Conquest; he was privy to the counsels of the leaders and was at hand when Montezuma was made a prisoner in his own palace. Bernal Díaz fought in over a hundred battles and skirmishes against an enemy who made living sacrifices of their prisoners. These things he saw and recorded in a bold blunt voice whose immediacy, in Maudslay’s classic translation, reaches across the centuries to invite readers to witness for themselves the horrors and wonders of the initial, apocalyptic clash between two great civilizations. Edited from the only exact copy of the original manuscript (and published in Mexico) by Genaro Garcia. (L)
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