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Hernán Cortés (called by the Italian form of his name, "Fernando") is the hero of Antonio Vivaldi's 1733 opera Motezuma. [73] Cortés features as an antagonist in the 1980 novel Aztec by Gary Jennings. [74] Cortés was portrayed (as "Hernando Cortez") by actor Cesar Romero in the 1947 historical adventure film Captain from Castile. [75]
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
Six of the First Twelve, mural in the ex-convento of Huexotzinco. Motolinia is depicted fourth from the left. The Twelve Apostles of Mexico, the Franciscan Twelve, or the Twelve Apostles of New Spain, were a group of twelve Franciscan missionaries who arrived in the newly-founded Viceroyalty of New Spain on May 13 or 14, 1524 and reached Mexico City on June 17 or 18, [1] with the goal of ...
The Church of Jesus Nazareno was stripped bare. However, the choir and part of the nave conserve a long mural painted by José Clemente Orozco. The work was inspired both by the Apocalypse and the horrors of the Second World War. Orozco worked on this from 1942 to 1944, but left it uncompleted. [4]
The name Cuernavaca is a euphonism derived from the Nahuatl toponym Cuauhnāhuac and means 'surrounded by or close to trees'. The name was Hispanicized to Cuernavaca ; Hernán Cortés called it Coadnabaced in his letters to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor , and Bernal Díaz del Castillo used the name Cuautlavaca in his chronicles. [ 4 ]
The documents span a long period from 1518 to 1548, a year after his death. Two letters dated in 1526 which mention the expedition to the Hibueras (today Honduras ). These letters are under protection of the Center for the Study of Mexican History of the Foundation Carlos Slim.
Buried in the Mexico City palace of Hernan Cortes is a mysterious, centuries-old skeleton. ... If they indeed belonged to a clergyman, they would have been buried within his community and with ...
Colonial era tapestry depicting the Conquest of Mexico located in the Palace of Cortes. After Cortés's death, his son Don Martin, as the new Marquéz del Valle de Oaxaca, inherited this palace. From 1629 to 1747, the family gradually abandoned it, and the building was used as an ironworks, tannery, and textile workshop. [6]