Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico

by Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci

A Spaniard originally from Italy, the polymath Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci (1702-1753), known as Boturini, traveled to New Spain in 1736. Becoming fascinated by the Mesoamerican cultures of the New World, he collected and copied native writings--and learned Nahuatl, the language in which most of these documents were written. Boturini's incomparable collection--confiscated, neglected, and dispersed after the Spanish crown condemned his intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806148330
• ISBN13: 9780806148335
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"