Francisco López de Gómara
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Francisco López de Gómara was a Spanish historian who worked in Seville, particularly noted for his works in which he described the early 16th century expedition undertaken by Hernán Cortés in the Spa
Sculpture of Francisco López de Gómara by Federico Coullaut-Valera in Soria, Spain
Cover of 1555 book
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events. As an exp
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…firsthand access to Cortés and others of the returning conquistadores as the sources of his account. However other contemporaries, among them most notably Bernal Díaz del Castillo, criticised his work as being full of inaccuracies, and one which unjustifiably sanitised the events and aggrandised Cortés' role. As such, the reliability…
A memorial plaque to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in his hometown of Medina del Campo, Spain.
A memorial to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in Medina del Campo, Spain
Pages from the 1632 edition of The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo.
The title page of the 1632 edition of the Historia verdadera