"Cortes then adduced many beautiful comparisons ... notion that the Aztecs saw the Spanish as superior. Montezuma sent out envoys to meet the conquistador as he neared the capital.

Álvaro Enrigue's new novel reimagines Hernán Cortés' and Moctezuma's empires : NPR's Book of the Day You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between ...

Acosta is quite sure of his lineage: up until the 1930s, his family received a pension granted by the government to Moctezuma's descendants. And Pignatelli's family had inherited one of Cortes ...

Hernán Cortés meeting Moctezuma in 1519 holds some space in our North American imagination. Two trajectories of human development — long separated by time and distance — crossed in ...

his family received a pension granted by the government to Moctezuma’s descendants. And Pignatelli’s family had inherited one of Cortes’ noble titles, until they sold it. The two shook hands ...