Lexis (Dec 2018)
Una crónica alternativa de la conquista de México. Otra Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
Abstract
The True story of New Spain conquest by captain Fernando Cortés is a manuscript with 382 sheets (classification MSS/2997 in the Spain National Library). The author is Pedro Fernández de Pulgar (1621-1697). The facts of the military occupation of the Mayan, Tlaxcaltecan and Aztec territories, by the Cortes’s troops, are reconstructed in this book, until Mexico Tenochtitlan downfall. Based on previous stories, the perspective of this writing is to tear down the “black legend”, supposedly created by father Bartolomé de las Casas.
