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Historia di Mexico, et quando si discoperse la nuoua Hispagne, conquistata per illustriss. et ualoroso principe. don Ferdinando Cortese marchese del Valle... tradotta nel uolgare italiano per Augustino de Crauiliz.
Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorici , 1556
Physical Description: 240 leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Call number: B556 / L864hd1
Accession number: 0651
Notes: Contains several brief lists of Nahuatl vocabulary, including numerals 1-20 and calendrical terms (some of which are animal names and other common nouns) for months, days, weeks, and years, with Italian equivalents in parallel column (leaves 200 verso-203 verso). Preceded by “Delle lettere di Mexico”, a paragraph discussing Nahuatl hieroglyphics and phonetics (leaf 200 recto).
Translation, by Augustino de Cravaliz, of author's Conquista de Mexico, first published as second part of author’s La istoria de las Indias, y conquista de Mexico, Saragossa: Agustin Millan, 1552.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
