Mapping the Aztec capital: The 1524 Nuremberg map of Tenochtitlan, its sources and meanings

The map of Tenochtitlan published along with a Latin version of Hernán Cortés's letters (Nuremberg, 1524) was the first picture Europeans had of the Culhua-Mexica city, the capital of the Aztec empire. The source of this woodcut map is unknown, and the author argues here that it was based on an...

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