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Postconquest histories of the Aztec written in Spanish

Within a few decades of the conquest, a series of histories had been written in the Spanish language, based in part on Aztec books and in part on information supplied by the upper class. Among the most detailed of these is the three-part Historia de las Indias de la Nueva España e Islas de Tierra Firma (“History of the Indies of New Spain”), written in about 1580 by the Dominican friar Diego Durán.