Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The C
✍ John Bierhorst
📂 Library
📅 2009
🏛 University of Texas Press
🌐 English
Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads sho