The Spanish soldier Bernal Díaz del Castillo (ca. 1496-ca. 1584) was a member of the expedition that conquered the Aztec empire. His "A True History of the Conquest of New Spain" is the most complete contemporary chronicle of that event. Bernal...

Hacia el final del capítulo 78 de su Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España, Bernal Díaz del Castillo hace referencia, por primera y única vez, al Popocatépetl. Con Hernán Cortés a la cabeza, el Ejército conquistador se encontraba a la...

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In the following essay, Cascardi describes Díaz's True History as a hybrid text that combines autobiography and fiction, and that anticipates the emergence of the novel.

The following is an excerpt from Wagner's exhaustive analysis of Díaz's accuracy, in which he concludes that the author made many errors.

In this introduction to the second edition of Maurice Keatinge's translation of Díaz, Smith argues that Díaz described the "expedition to Mexico [as essentially democratic, " as opposed to Francisco López de Gómara's glorification of Cortés alone.]