Idea of a New General History of North America - 9780806148335

Idea of a New General History of North AmericaAn Account of Colonial Native Mexico\nAuthor(s): Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Stafford Poole, Susan Schroeder\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806148335, 978-0806148335\nSynopsis\nA Spaniard originally from Italy, the polymath Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci [tel], known as Boturini, traveled to New Spain in 1736. Becoming fascinated by the Mesoamerican cultures of the New World, he collected and copied native writings - and learned Nahuatl, the language in which most of these documents were written. Boturini's incomparable collection - confiscated, neglected, and dispersed after the Spanish crown condemned his intellectual pursuits - became the basis of his Idea of a New General History of North America. The volume, completed in 1746 and written almost entirely from memory, is presented here in English for the first time, along with the Catlogo, Boturin.