by Francisco López de Gómara · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475309750
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«Historia General de las Indias II. Conquista de Méjico» is the historical essay by Francisco López de Gómara, published by Orbis in hardback (319 pages, in Spanish).
Second part of the Historia General de las Indias, in which Francisco López de Gómara narrates the conquest of Mexico. The volume, part of the Biblioteca de Historia collection, offers a detailed account of this episode in the history of the Americas.
Francisco López de Gómara was a Spanish historian who worked in Seville, particularly noted for his works in which he described the early 16th century expedition undertaken by Hernán Cortés in the Spanish conquest of the New World. Although Gómara himself did not accompany Cortés, and had in fact never been to the Americas, he had firsthand access to Cortés and others of the returning conquistadores as the sources of his account. However other contemporaries, among them most notably Bernal Díaz del Castillo, criticised his work as being full of inaccuracies, and one which unjustifiably sanitised the events and aggrandised Cortés' role. As such, the reliability of his works may be called into question; yet they remain a valuable and oft-cited record of these events.
