Cortés and MontezumaNew Directions Publishing, 1999 - 251 páginas Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical system as 9 Wind Day) was the precise date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black--exactly as Cortés would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts story and scholarship. Though its consequences have been treated by writers as diverse as D.H. Lawrence and Charles Olson, never before have the facts of this event been rendered with such extraordinary clarity and elegance. |
Contenido
CORTÉS IN the West INDIES | 21 |
THE DISCOVERY OF MEXICO | 25 |
CORTÉS SETS OUT | 33 |
CORTÉS ARRIVES IN MEXICO | 40 |
MONTEZUMA | 48 |
THE LANDING OF CORTÉSQUETZALCOATL | 61 |
CORTÉS TRICKS VELÁZQUEZ | 69 |
CORTÉS PREPARES | 79 |
MONTEZUmas Treasure | 149 |
THE INSTALLATION OF THE VIRGIN | 158 |
THE SMOKING MIRROR Demands CORTES DEATH | 162 |
VELÁZQUEZs COUNTERSTROke is Defeated page | 166 |
THE MEXICANS RISE AGAINST CORTÉS | 178 |
THE DEATH OF MONTEZUMA | 182 |
CORTÉS FLEES FROM MEXICO CITY | 193 |
THE MAGICAL BATTLE of Otumba | 198 |
CORTÉS MArches on MEXICO | 86 |
CORTÉS AT TLAXCALA | 102 |
CORTÉS AT CHOLULA | 107 |
MONTEZUMA AND CORTÉS MEET | 113 |
MONTEZUma Converses with CortÉS | 126 |
CORTÉS Confines MONTEZUMA | 136 |
MONTEZUMA BOWS TO HIS FATE | 144 |
CORTÉS Recuperates at TLAXCALA | 205 |
CORTÉS BELEAGUERS MEXICO CITY | 210 |
CORTÉS STORMS MEXICO CITY | 223 |
POSTSCRIPT | 230 |
TABLE OF Dates | 243 |
INDEX | 246 |
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