Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci: 1 book
Idea of a New General History of North America
An Account of Colonial Native Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A Spaniard originally from Italy, the polymath Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci (1702–1753), 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...
