Francisco Cervantes de Salazar

Portrait of Francisco Cervantes de Salazar by José de Bustos, Museo Soumaya .

Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (* approx. 1514 in Toledo , † 1575 in Mexico City ) was a Spanish-Mexican scholar, chronicler and clergyman.

life and work

Cervantes de Salazar was born in Toledo, Spain. He studied at the University of Salamanca and later traveled to Flanders .

He published several works by Fernán Pérez de Oliva , Luis Mexia and Lluís Vives , which were published in 1546. In 1550 he went to Mexico and was co-founder and rector of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico ( Real y Pontificia Universidad de México ), where he held the chair for rhetoric . He was the city's first chronicler.

México en 1554 y Túmulo imperial published by Edmundo O'Gorman and annotated in the series Sepan cuantos by Porrúa. His Crónica de la Nueva España ( Chronicle of New Spain ) tells of the conquest of Mexico and provides numerous data on the Aztec - or Mexica culture.

Cervantes de Salazar is also believed to be the author of the picaresque novel La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes .

Works

Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco: México en 1554 y Túmulo imperial. Edición, prologo y notas de Edmundo O'Gorman. Mexico City, Porrúa, 1965 ( Sepan cuantos , 25)
Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco: Crónica de la Nueva España. Edición de Manuel Magallón . Estudio preliminar e indices por Agustín Millares Carlo . 2 volumes. Tomo I; Tomo II. Madrid, Atlas, 1971 ( Biblioteca de autores españoles , t. 244–245)
Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco: México en 1554. Tres diálogos latinos traducidos: Joaquín García Icazbalceta. Notas preliminares: Julio Jiménez Rueda. México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , 1964
Salazar, Francisco Cervantes de: Life in the imperial and loyal city of Mexico in New Spain, and the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico as described in the dialogues for the study of the Latin language. Prepared by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar for use in his classes and printed in 1554 by Juan Pablos. [Latin-English] Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1970, ISBN 0-8371-3033-6
Millares Carlo, Agustin: Cartas recibidas de Espana por Francisco Cervantes de Salazar. (1569-1575). Biblioteca historica Mexicana , 20. Mexico, Antigua Libreria Robredo, 1946

References and footnotes

↑ There are different statements from the 1510s on the year of birth.
↑ cf. Obras de Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco, 1514-1575

literature

Víctor Manuel Sanchis Amat: Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (1518–1575) y lapatria del conocimiento: la soledad del humanistaen la ciudad de México . Tesis de doctorado. 2012 ( Universidad de Alicante )
Zelia Nuttall: "Francisco Cervantes de Salazar. Biographical notes", Journal de la société des américanistes . Année 1921, 13-1, pp. 59-90
Howard F. Cline and John B. Glass (Eds.): Handbook of Middle American Indians , Vol. 13. 1973, pp. 70-71
María José Rodilla: Aquestas son de México las señas ".: La capital de la Nueva España según los cronistas, poetas y viajeros (siglos XVI al XVIII). Vervuert, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95487-352-4
Dianne M. Bono: Cultural diffusion of Spanish humanism in New Spain: Francisco Cervantes de Salazar's Diálogo de la dignidad del hombre. New York, San Francisco, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Paris, London: Lang 1991, 0-8204-1622-3

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personal data
SURNAME	Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish-Mexican scholar, chronicler and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1514
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toledo
DATE OF DEATH	1575
Place of death	Mexico city

[1] There are different statements from the 1510s on the year of birth.

[2] . Obras de Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco, 1514-1575