Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.
Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.
Andrew Laird is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities at Brown University. His previous publications include Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power; The Epic of America; and, as editor with Carlo Caruso, Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600.
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* Preface * Acknowledgments * List of Illustrations * Introduction * 1. Faith, politics and the pursuit of humanity: The first scholars in New Spain * 2. Persuasion for a pagan audience: Rhetoric, memory and action in missionary writing * 3. Between Babel and Utopia: Renaissance grammar and Amerindian languages * 4. Education of the indigenous nobility: The Imperial College of Santa Cruz at Santiago Tlatelolco * 5. From the Evangelia et Epistolae to the Huehuetlahtolli: Indian Latinists and the creation of Nahuatl literature * 6. Humanism and ethnohistory: Petitions in Latin from Tlacopan and Azcapotzalco * 7. A mirror for Mexican princes: The Nahuatl translation of Aesop's Fables * 8. Aztec gods and orators: Classical learning and indigenous agency in the Florentine Codex * 9. Universal histories for posterity: Native chroniclers and their European sources * 10. Conclusions and Envoi * Appendix 1: Catalogues and Conspectuses * Appendix 2: Texts and Translations * Appendix 3: Excursus: Antonio Valeriano and the Virgin of Guadalupe * Bibliography * Index
* Preface * Acknowledgments * List of Illustrations * Introduction * 1. Faith, politics and the pursuit of humanity: The first scholars in New Spain * 2. Persuasion for a pagan audience: Rhetoric, memory and action in missionary writing * 3. Between Babel and Utopia: Renaissance grammar and Amerindian languages * 4. Education of the indigenous nobility: The Imperial College of Santa Cruz at Santiago Tlatelolco * 5. From the Evangelia et Epistolae to the Huehuetlahtolli: Indian Latinists and the creation of Nahuatl literature * 6. Humanism and ethnohistory: Petitions in Latin from Tlacopan and Azcapotzalco * 7. A mirror for Mexican princes: The Nahuatl translation of Aesop's Fables * 8. Aztec gods and orators: Classical learning and indigenous agency in the Florentine Codex * 9. Universal histories for posterity: Native chroniclers and their European sources * 10. Conclusions and Envoi * Appendix 1: Catalogues and Conspectuses * Appendix 2: Texts and Translations * Appendix 3: Excursus: Antonio Valeriano and the Virgin of Guadalupe * Bibliography * Index
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