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Comparison of the maps of Ramusio, 1556 (left) and Ortelius, 1564 (right). Both maps are courtesy of the Syndics of the British Library. Sources: G. B. Ramusio, Navigazioni e Viaggi, Venice, 1556; A. Ortelius, Nova totius terrarum orbis, Antwerp, 1564.
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This article studies sixteenth-century English views of Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs and the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the framework of the Atlantic world. It analyses the process by which English scholars and politicians collated, understood, appropriated and used information about Mexico – circulating in the rest of Europe – to produce their own...
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... Ortelius's map of the Aztec capital appeared in black and white as a small inset in the lower left-hand corner of the wall-size world's map. Although Ortelius did not cite his sources, it is possible to recognize that his map was based on a previous one which Giovanni Battista Ramusio had used in the third volume of his Navigazioni e Viaggi (Figure 3). 41 Ramusio, in turn, had obtained his map from one included in a letter by the so called ''anonymous conqueror,'' a Spanish soldier who had accompanied Hernán Cortés to Mexico and who had kept a record of the expedition. ...
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A través de la presentación y análisis de los documentos que fueron publicados en Inglaterra en el siglo xvi, este artículo aborda la génesis del proceso de construcción de visiones inglesas sobre la región que hoy se identifica como maya. En un contexto marcado por crecientes tensiones con España, la región maya —convenientemente cercana a los bastiones ingleses establecidos en el Caribe— fue vista por algunos en Inglaterra como una zona estratégica para mermar el poder español y promover las nacientes ambiciones imperiales inglesas.
