Diego Durán was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain, a book that was much criticised in his lifetime for helping the "heathen" maintain their culture.
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An excerpt from The History of the Indies of New Spain showing the founding of Tenochtitlan.
Moctezuma represented according to the codex of the 16th century chronicler Diego Durán.
Engraving of an Aztec human sacrifice, shown in the book Historia de las Indias (1574-1576) by Diego Durán.
Festivities for the coronation of Moctezuma. The depicted event took place in 1502. Durán Codex, page 158.
Hernán Cortés and La Malinche, 1576, Durán Codex by Diego Durán.Writers from Spain 6
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deceased
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Lived 1537 to 1588 · aged 51
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