Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1495–1584)
Autor/a de The Conquest of New Spain
Sobre l'autor
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.
Crèdit de la imatge: Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Obres de 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 exemplars
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full… (1979) 31 exemplars
The Fall of the Aztecs with Illustrations By the Conquered and Text By the Conquerors (1965) 2 exemplars
Ferdinand Cortes 1 exemplars
Historia Verdadera De La Conquista De Nueva Espana: Decimoseptima Edicion: Num. 5 (1986) 1 exemplars
La Conquista de la Nueva España III 1 exemplars
La Conquista d3 Nueva España IV 1 exemplars
La Conquista de Nueva España I 1 exemplars
Antología de literatura guatemalteca : del Popol Vuh a los albores de la modernidad (2007) 1 exemplars
Conquista De La Nueva Espana, Volume I 1 exemplars
Historia Verdadera de la Conquista De La Nueva Espana por uno de sus conquistadores, Volume II 1 exemplars
Verdadera y Notable Relacion 1 exemplars
the discovers and conquest of mexico 1 exemplars
Antología 1 exemplars
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva-España / por el capitán Bernal Díaz del Castillo… (1992) 1 exemplars
Bernal Díaz del Castillo : antología 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo XX (1997) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
- Nom oficial
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
- Data de naixement
- 1495
1492 - Data de defunció
- 1584
c.1580 - Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Spain
- Lloc de naixement
- Medina del Campo, Spain
- Llocs de residència
- Medina del Campo, Spain (birth)
La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala - Professions
- conquistador
governor (Santiago de los Caballeros) - Biografia breu
- 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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- Obres
- 51
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 2,241
- Popularitat
- #11,444
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 39
- ISBN
- 157
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 1