by Hernán Cortés, Ángel Delgado Gómez · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470396700
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«Cartas de relación» is the epistolary chronicle by Hernán Cortés, edited by Ángel Delgado Gómez, published by Castalia in paperback (692 pp., in Spanish).
The reports that Hernán Cortés addresses to Emperor Charles V recount the discovery and conquest of Mexico. The five relaciones, written between 1519 and 1526, describe territories and inhabitants, alliances and wars, and document the formation of New Spain, of which Cortés was appointed first governor in 1522.
Edition by Ángel Delgado Gómez, with introduction, select bibliography, textual variants and glossary. Number 198 of the Clásicos Castalia collection. Published in 1983.
May appeal to readers of colonial American history and classical Spanish literature, as well as students seeking an annotated edition.
Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
