Rhetorical conquests : Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance imperialism / Glen Carman.

SeriesPurdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 35
Purdue studies in Romance literatures v. 35. ^A309168
Contents A brief account of events -- Accounting for the account -- Rhetoric and Renaissance historiography -- Cortés and Machiavelli -- Cortés's written authority : fabricating truth -- Conquering and convincing -- Competing accounts (1521-1552) -- History as biography : theory and practice in Gómara -- Gómara's protean hero -- Voice and irony -- Trusting the translator -- Gómara's Cortés defines himself -- Quelling a mutiny in Tlaxcala -- From idols to icons -- Renaissance ventriloquism -- Rendering Moctezuma harmless in Cortés's Segunda relación -- Gómara and the humanist revisions of surrender.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index.
LCCN 2005032897
ISBN1557534039
ISBN9781557534033

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