Solís y Ribadeneyra, Antonio de:

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HISTORIA DE LA CONQUISTA DE MEXICO, POBLACION, Y PROGRESSOS DE LA AMERICA SEPTENTRIONAL, CONOCIDA POR EL NOMBRE DE NUEVA ESPAÑA. First edition of one of the classic works of Mexican history, by one of the great Spanish writers of the time. Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra (1610-1686) was a prominent Spanish playwright and historian. His HISTORIA..., covering the three years between Cortés' appointment as commander of the expedition to secure central Mexico and the ultimate fall of the city, is regarded as a great work of Spanish Baroque prose; Solís was later dubbed the "Cronista de Indias" (Chronicler of the Indies). Prescott called it "the most remarkable history in the Castilian language," and other authorities have followed suit in praising it as a basic work on the conquest of Mexico. French and Italian translations followed in the 1690s, and an English translation by Thomas Townsend appeared in 1724. The book was extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic for decades, and remained the most important European source on Latin American history until the 19th century.

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