VERDADES Y MENTIRAS EN TORNO A DON DIEGO DE MENDOZA AUSTRIA MOCTEZUMA by MARIA CASTANEDA DE LA PAZ - 2017

NEW ~ Fascinating study about Mexican Indigenous elites including Tlatelolco cacique don Diego de Mendoza and manuscripts purportedly dating to the mid-sixteenth century that, as the author argues, were re-elaborated in the late seventeenth. Focuses on Diego Garcia de Mendoza Moctezuma, "quien hizo de la produccion de los manuscritos pictograficos y alfabeticos su medio de vida, pues como aqui tambien se demuestra, el fue el autor intelectual de los codices "techialoyan", entre otros documentos." 426pp. Illustrations, some color. Lengthy appendix with genealogical charts and transcribed documents. Bibliography. En espanol. Edition of1000 / 1000 ejemplares. New copy with light scraping to plastic on back cover. In stock. Usually ships in three days.