Historia Verdadera

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. 4 vols. México: Oficina tipográfica de la Secretaría de fomento, 1904, 1905.

Díaz del Castillo, a conquistador, was with Cortés when most of the important incidents related to the conquest of Mexico took place. His account is, thus, one of the most complete from the Spanish perspective and covers the Spanish landing on the coast to Cortés’s fruitless trek over land to put down a rebellion in Honduras. This edition is, to my knowledge, the first published version of Díaz del Castillo’s final version of his manuscript.

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Volume 1, chapters
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Volume 2, chapters
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78, part 1
78, part 2
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83, part 1
83, part 2
83, part 3
83, part 4
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91, part 1
91, part 2
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128, part 1
128, part 2