The broken spears : the Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico / edited and with an introduction by Miguel León-Portilla ; with a foreword by J. Jorge Klor de Alva ; translated from Nahuatl into Spanish by Angel María Garibay K. ; English translation by Lysander Kemp ; illustrations, adapted from original codices paintings, by Alberto Beltran. - Expanded and updated ed. - Boston, Mass : Beacon P., 1992. - xlix, 196 p. : ill. ; diagrs

Translation of: Visión de los vencidos.

Includes bibliographical references

0807055018 (pbk.)


Aztecs--First contact with Europeans--Sources.
Indians of Mexico--First contact with Europeans--Sources.
Nahuatl literature--Translations into Spanish.


Mexico--History--Sources.--Conquest, 1519-1540

F1230 .B76 1992