Obras Historicas de Don Fernando de Alva IIxtlilxochitl

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Author: Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de (1568 between and 1580-1648) annotated by Alfredo Chavero Year: 1891-1892 Publisher: Secretaria de Fomento Place: Mexico City Description: 2 volumes. Volume I Relaciones . 508 pages with errata. Volume II Historia Chichimeca . 455 pages with errata. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in grey cloth with gilt lettering to covers. First edition. Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl He was a distinguished student at the Imperial Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, where he was educated in both Nahuatl and Spanish. He lived in San Juan Teotihuacán from 1600 to 1604. He was commissioned by the Spanish viceroy of New Spain to write histories of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. His Relación histórica de la nación tulteca (usually called Relación ) was written between 1600 and 1608. This was an account of many events in New Spain, and many events of the Toltec people. The Relación and most of his other accounts and compilations contain writing fragments and songs, with much repetition and little organization. He gives a detailed account of the important part played by his great-grandfather Don Fernando Ixtlilxóchitl II in the conquest of Mexico and the pacification of the Indigenous of New Spain, praising him in every possible way and condemning the ingratitude of the conquerors. Later (1610 to 1640, according to Chavero), Alva wrote the Spanish work Historia chichimeca , which refers to the same events, but with more organization. Histo

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