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Motolinia's history of the Indians of New SpainBook 1951 • Motolinía, Toribio, -1568 & Steck, Francis Borgia
Aztecs • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
One of twelve pioneering Franciscan missionaries, Toribio de Benavente (aka Motolinía) served between 1524 and 1539 as the head of monasteries first in Mexico City and later in Tlaxcala (where much of the text was composed) with intervening missions ...