Detail of the map of Tenochtitlan, Venice, 1524. Source: H. Cortés, La preclara narratione della Nuoua Hispagna del mare Océano, Venice, 1524).

Detail of the map of Tenochtitlan, Venice, 1524. Source: H. Cortés, La preclara narratione della Nuoua Hispagna del mare Océano, Venice, 1524).

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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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... The map portrayed Tenochtitlan in the fashion of Venice, the closest European referent of a city built on water. It showed the palaces of Moctezuma and Axayacátl, the square of Tlatelolco, three causeways across the water, the aqueduct to the mainland, numerous canals, Moctezuma's zoo and, toward the centre of the town, the great temple ( Figure 5). The map made clear reference to the Aztec practice of human sacrifice by representing two skull racks, a headless figure and the labels (in Italian); ''il templo dove sacrificano'' (temple where sacrifices are made) and ''le teste delli sacrificati'' (sacrificial heads). ...
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... The map portrayed Tenochtitlan in the fashion of Venice, the closest European referent of a city built on water. It showed the palaces of Moctezuma and Axayacátl, the square of Tlatelolco, three causeways across the water, the aqueduct to the mainland, numerous canals, Moctezuma's zoo and, toward the centre of the town, the great temple ( Figure 5). The map made clear reference to the Aztec practice of human sacrifice by representing two skull racks, a headless figure and the labels (in Italian); ''il templo dove sacrificano'' (temple where sacrifices are made) and ''le teste delli sacrificati'' (sacrificial heads). ...

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