Diego Durán
Diego Durán (Seville, Spain towards 1537 - 1588) is a Dominican Moine and Spanish Historien having lived in Nouvelle Spain.
Born in Spain in a family from Conversos, it left Europe for the Mexico towards the age of five or six years. It entered the order of Dominican in 1556. It resided at Mexico City, Chimalhuacan Atenco and in Hueyapan. Knowing the Nahuatl perfectly, he worked with the evangelization of the Indians. Convinced that, to extirpate the idolatry, it had well to be known, it attempted to study the indigenous cultures and its work constitutes, with that of Bernardino de Sahagún, one of the irreplaceable sources for the knowledge of the Mésoamérique the day before the Spanish conquest. From 1576 to 1581, it wrote its most known book: History of the Indies of New Spain and of the Islands of the Dry land , also named Codex Durán , of which the first two parts treat religion of the Aztèques and the third of their history. It is about one of the first works Occident with on this subject.
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