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Historia di don Ferdinando Cortes, marchese della Valle, capitano valorosissimo, con le sue marauigliose prodezze, nel tempo che discopri & acquistò la nuoua Spagna. Parte Terza. Composta da Francesco Lopez di Gomara in lingua spagnuola, tradotta nella Italiana per Agostino de Cravaliz.
Venice: Camillo Franceschini , 1576
Physical Description: [8], 343, [1] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Call number: B576/ L864h
Accession number: 07844
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 288 verso-292 recto). Vocabulary immediately preceded by “Delle lettere di Mexico”, a paragraph discussing Nahuatl hieroglyphics and phonetics (leaf 288 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. This Italian translation first published with title: Historia di Mexico, et quando si discoperse la nuova Hispagne, Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorici fratelli.
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
