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The Baltic, 1517
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The Conquest of New Spain
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 to c. 1580) is an account written in 1568 of the early Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica, specifically the conquest of the Aztec civilization in Mexico from 1519 to 1521 when Díaz was a member of the conquistador expedition led by Hernán Cortés (1485-1547).
Bernal Díaz
Díaz was born in 1492 in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, in Spain. Like many young men of his generation, he sought his fortune in military escapades in the New World. Díaz was in Nombre de Dios in Panama in 1514 where he served Pedro Arias de Avila (aka Pedrarias Dávila, b. 1442). In 1517, Díaz moved on to Cuba where he served under another infamous colonial governor, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465-1524). Velázquez was keen to find out more about the Yucatán Peninsula – then considered just another Caribbean island. Cuéllar sent two expeditions of exploration to Mexico: one in 1517 led by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1474-1517) and another in 1518 led by Juan de Grijalva (1489-1527). Díaz was on both expeditions as an ensign, and they have a chapter each devoted to them in Díaz's chronicle, but it is inconsistencies in the geography of these expeditions which have led some to doubt Díaz's participation.
Velázquez was so intrigued by the reports of the first two expeditions concerning a large civilization to the west that he determined to send out a third reconnaissance mission, this time to be led by Hernán Cortés. Díaz went on this expedition in 1519, but Cortés was ambitious for much more than information and was intent on conquest and riches.
After the campaign against the Aztecs, Díaz had an official position in Guatemala which included an encomienda license to extract labour from the indigenous community. Díaz visited Spain again but ultimately returned to Guatemala to write his famous work in the last years of his eventful life. The original title in Spanish is Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ("The True History of the Conquest of New Spain"). New Spain was the name given to the viceroyalty that the Spanish established in 1535, of which Mexico was a part.
The work was first published in 1568, almost 50 years after the events the book describes. Díaz was 76 at the time, and this may explain some of the inconsistencies that have preoccupied modern historians. The doubts are a little ironic since one of the primary motivations for Díaz to take up his pen was to set the record straight. Díaz did not agree with a recent publication by Francisco López de Gómara (1511 to c. 1566), Herńan Cortés' private chaplain and final confessor. He felt that López's General History of the Indies (Historia General de las Indias), written in collaboration with Gonzalo de Illescas, had not got all the details of the Aztec conquest right and that Cortés had not been represented accurately. Díaz claimed that López had never even been to the Americas while he had been an eyewitness at every major battle. Díaz frequently criticises and corrects these chroniclers in his own work, and he is keen to show that the conquest was a team effort of conquistadors and not just Cortés, who Díaz felt had gained too much credit at the cost of his colleagues. A further motivation for Díaz was that his account, in which he is keen to show his role in the conquest, in some sense justified his encomienda, which at that point risked being abolished by a new set of laws.
Díaz died around 1580, having outlived all his old conquistador companions, but at least, in the words of the English translator J. M. Cohen, having recorded his version of events for posterity by displaying "a graphic memory and a great sense of the dramatic" (7).
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source : @cheminer-poesie-cressant
dans cette pièce, sans ton ombre, j’étais devenu le propriétaire unique et solitaire de ton silence ; à l’abri de ses parois, j’ai commencé à en lire des passages, feuillet tremblant pour tout accueillir, l’extrait là en suspens que je me suis mis à réciter en moi-même plusieurs fois de suite comme pour mieux le détenir, le carrosser, le faire briller jusqu’à l’apparition du mot ; jusqu’au moment où ton silence est devenu mon silence, jusqu’au moment où je t’ai entendu m’appeler, où nous avons fait corps commun
© Pierre Cressant
(mardi 27 décembre 2022)
#poésie en prose#poésie#poètes sur tumblr#poème#poème en prose#prose poétique#poètes français#french poetry#poésie contemporaine#poètes français#silence#les forces du silence#pierre cressant#Cornelis Engebrechtsz#1515#1517#triptyque#triptyque avec crucifixion du Christ#leiden#leyde#museum lakenhal#renaissance
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F1 in 1517
#f1#formula 1#1517#tiktok#video#max verstapen#toto wolff#daniel riccciardo#george russell#i cannot#this is everything#especially the theme song
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Flora, Titian, 1517
#flora#titian#1517#1510s#1500s#16th century#portrait#painting#art#renaissance#italian renaissance#Venetian renaissance
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Release: June 29, 1987
Lyrics:
Who needs friends who never show?
I'll tell you what you wanna know
I could have saved a broken heart
If I'd found out long ago
I'm just thinking about those lonely nights
When I waited on your call
'Till found out all my friends were right (Ooh)
I didn't know you at all
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
They say you've got a broken heart (I heard it)
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
Yes, I did boy, ooh-ooh
Now it seems they're telling me
You've changed your wicked ways
But should I give you a second chance?
Baby, I'm too afraid
So you realize what hurt you made
And the love you threw away
How can I forgive or soon forget?
It's never gonna be the same
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
They say you've got a broken heart (I heard it)
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
Yes, I did boy, ooh-ooh
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
They say you've got a broken heart (I heard it)
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
Yes, I did boy, ooh-ooh
Woo!
I'm just thinking about those lonely nights (I'm just thinking about when I waited)
When I waited on your call
'Till found out all my friends were right ('Till I found out, ooh)
I didn't know you at all
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
They say you've got a broken heart (I heard it)
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
Yes, I did boy, ooh-ooh
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
They say you've got a broken heart (I heard it)
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
Yes, I did boy, ooh-ooh
Songwriter:
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
They say you've got a broken heart (I heard it)
I heard a rumour (Ooh-ooh, I heard a rumour)
Yes, I did boy, ooh-ooh
Peter Alan Waterman / Matthew James Aitken / Keren Jane Woodward / Sarah Elizabeth Dallin / Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey / Michael Stock
SongFacts:
👉📖
Homepage:
Bananarama
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⛪️📜🔨
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dissolved 2mg xan in a shot of reposado
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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Funko Pop Movies: Wizard of Oz 85th Anniversary - Tin Man (, NEW).
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Portrait of a Young Man, Andrea del Sarto, 1517-18
#portrait of a young man#Andrea del sarto#del sarto#1517#1518#1510s#1500s#16th century#portrait#painting#art#renaissance
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#need to be a passenger princess in a car on a sunny day w the windows rolled down w this playing asap#the whitest boy alive#1517#music
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Late Gothic double spiral staircase of the south tower of the Church of Saint Maurice. They date back to 1517 at the latest. Pozdně gotické dvouvřetenové schodiště jižní věže Kostela svatého Mořice. Pocházejí nejpozději z roku 1517.
The Church of Saint Maurice | Kostel svatého Mořice is a Roman Catholic church in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It is located in the city centre, near the Upper Square | Horní náměstí and remains one of the most important landmarks of the city. It has two towers – the southern bell tower dates back to 1403.
#Gothic#double spiral staircase#south tower#gotika#Gotik#dvouvřetenové schodiště#Doppelwendeltreppe#Двойная винтовая лестница#jižní věž#Südturm#1517#Church of Saint Maurice#Kostel svatého Mořice#St.-Mauritius-Kirche#St.-Moritz-Kirche#Церковь Святого Морица#Церковь Святого Маврикия#Костёл Святого Маврикия#Kościół św. Maurycego#Église Saint-Maurice#bell tower#Glockenturm#колокольная башня#Olomouc#Olmütz#Оломоуц#Ольмюц#Ołomuniec#Morava#Moravia
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