Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation

Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec NationI may properly place "Malinche" as...
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Author: Richmond, Hiram Hoyt,1843-
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Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation

Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation

€6,08

Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation

€6,08
Author: Richmond, Hiram Hoyt,1843-
Format: eBook
Language: English

Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation

I may properly place "Malinche" as supplementary to "Montezuma," as dealing with characters coincident to, and cotemporaneous with those concerned in the "Conquest," and also as covering a period subsequent to, and immediately succeeding the Conquest. To the student of history, Malinche (in her position of interpreter during the entire period of the Conquest) presents at once so much that is unique and charming, and yet such a sad commentary on the criminal practices of the sixteenth as well as the nineteenth centuries, that I have often wondered that a stronger and more practiced hand has not ere this claimed the privilege of championship. According to Prescott, she was born in the town of Painnalla, Province of Coatzacualco, in the southeastern extremity of what is now Mexico; that she was the daughter of a Cacique (a sort of provincial Governor) and prospective heiress to large estates; that after the death of her father, her mother, with indecent haste, forms another union, and in time presents the stepfather with a son; that they jointly combine to be rid of Malinche,[148] whom they sell to itinerant traders; and, to cover their device, they pretend that she is sick and use the child of a servant for their criminal pantomime; the child dies, thus completing the deception, except the hypocritical mourning to which this unnatural mother is said to have been equal. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 32110
Author: Richmond, Hiram Hoyt
Release Date: Apr 24, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

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