Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España

The 1904 edition of Díaz del Castillo eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico, based on the original manuscript.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (Author), Genaro García (Edited by)

9781108017367, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 August 2010

610 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.88 kg

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The two-volume edition reissued here was first published in 1904 and is considered a more reliable text, as it was based on the original manuscript preserved in Guatemala City. Volume 1 contains an introduction by the editor, the influential Mexican historian and book-collector Genaro García (1867–1920), a table of variant readings, and chapters 1–139 of the text.

Introducción
Bernal Diaz del Castillo - 1. Su vida
2. Su carácter
3. Su obra
4. Bibliografía
Apéndice número 1
Apéndice número 2, Tabla de variantes
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, Cap. I-CXXXIX
Tabla de capítulos.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]