Hernando Cortés

Standard Name: Cortés, Hernando

Used Form: Hernando Cortes

Used Form: Hernán Cortes

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Textual Features	Alice Dixon Le Plongeon	Unusual articles written by ADLP include titles such as Dialogues of the Dead, a fictional debate between the Spaniard Hernán Cortés and the Aztec king Montezuma in which each takes jabs at the other...
Textual Production	Eglinton Wallace	At some point before 1792, EW authored her single Hernando Cortés tragedy, Cortes, which remained unproduced and unpublished, and is now lost (except for passages which she later quoted). Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996. 401
Textual Production	Elizabeth Helme	Helme's Translator's Preface explains that she has replaced Campe's group of pupils with a whole family and their parents, observing that children will find that more interesting. Campe, Joachim Heinrich. Columbus. Translator Helme, Elizabeth, Sampson Low, 1799, 2 vols. 1: iii She praises the explorers for their...

Timeline

23 June 1516

The death of Ferdinand of Spain brought together the huge territories of Aragon, Castile, Burgundy, and the Low Countries, under the rule of Charles of Ghent, who soon became Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V

Summer 1520

Hernando Cortés , a Spanish soldier of fortune sent out in command of an expedition to Yucatán in Mexico, began what was almost a chance conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Pagden, Anthony. “Great Expectations of Themselves”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 32-3.

1932

US poet Archibald MacLeish won the Pulitzer Prize for his epic poem Conquistador, which traces the journey taken by Cortez through Mexico.

“Hernando Cortez (1460-1521): Spanish Explorer”. Thinkquest: Library: Explorers: Cortez.

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