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1) Malinche
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Español
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FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar la nueva novela de la laureada escritora mexicana Laura Esquivel, Malinche, narrada por la estrella mexicana Lucia Méndez.
Cuando Malinalli conoce a Cortés, asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcóatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortés.
A lo largo de la historia de México...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cortés's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. In Tenochtitlán, the City of Dreams, Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of a complex and sophisticated civilization with fifteen million...
4) Malinche
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortés, she -- like many -- believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cortés destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortés's thirst for conquest is all too human. He is willing to destroy anyone, even his...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Hernán Cortés y Motecuzoma protagonizaron el choque de culturas más trascendente de la historia de la humanidad. Todo en la historia del mundo moderno es producto de ese encuentro y esa conquista. "Toda nuestra historia se integra en Hernán Cortés. Odiarlo no nos ha servido y no ha resuelto nada. Amarlo no es necesario. Aceptarlo e integrarlo en nuestro pasado, como el ser humano que es, con aciertos y fracasos, luces y sombras, es fundamental....
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Series
Colección Leer en español volume 2
Language
Español
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Description
The story of Hernan Cortes' travels and conquests in Mexico through the eyes of his secretary.
12) Soy Malintzin
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La protagonista indiscutible de la Conquista de M̌xico cuenta su verdadera historia. Durante la primavera de 1519, Herǹn Corťs recibe como tributo varias esclavas, sin saber que entre ellas se encuentra una joven que cambiar̀ su destino. Malintzin tambǐn conocida como Malinche, sabe hablar con fluidez maya y ǹhuatl, y utilizar̀ estas lenguas para sobrevivir en medio de una guerra inevitable y un mundo que dejar̀ de existir entre el humo y...
15) 499
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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Description
To reflect on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hernan Cortes' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with...
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Series
Grandes tlatoanis del imperio volume 9
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"En este entrega de la serie Tlatoque, nos adentramos al universo de Cuitláhuac durante los pocos meses en los que dirigió el imperio mexica; los suficientes que necesitó para entender que Hernán Cortés era alguien que no respetaba los códigos de guerra, para comprender que las espadas, las armaduras y los caballos en conjunto eran invencibles ante las estrategias de batalla hasta entonces conocidas. También es la historia del tlatoani que...
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English
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"Captain from Castile, a classic of mid-twentieth-century American popular fiction, is the story of a young Spanish nobleman, Pedro de Vargas, who flees to the New World when his family is denounced by the Inquisition. He enlists with Cortés to conquer Mexico. His swashbuckling adventures move at a fast pace from sword fights to romantic and political intrigue. Readers often have compared this Samuel Shellabarger novel, to Alexandre Dumas' The Count...
20) Hernando Cortés
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
©1991.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mexico's conqueror.
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