by William Hickling Prescott · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804326083
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«Storia della conquista del Messico» is the historical essay by William H. Prescott, published by Mondadori in paperback (406 pages, in Italian).
The book recounts Hernán Cortés's expedition and the fall of the Aztec Empire, and analyses the encounter between the Spanish conquerors and Mesoamerican civilisations: indigenous alliances, decisive battles and key figures of the historical process.
It belongs to Mondadori's Oscar Biografie e Storia collection (no. 47); it is a compendium prepared by C. Harvey Gardiner and was published in 1989.
For readers interested in the history of the Americas and in classical historiography on the conquest of Mexico.
William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th-century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory, also called "photographic memory".
