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9786074451979, titled "La Tinta Negra Y Roja / the Black and Red Ink: AntologÃa De PoesÃa Náhuatl / Nahuatl Poetry Anthology" | Ediciones Era S.A. De C.V., August 20, 2012, cover price $20.95
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9781607811565 | Univ of Utah Pr, March 15, 2012, cover price $35.00
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9786071606327 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, October 1, 2011, cover price $39.95
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9786071605610 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, April 26, 2011, cover price $30.00
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9780807095454, titled "The Broken Spears 2007: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico" | Revised edition (Beacon Pr, November 24, 2010), cover price $17.00
Product Description: Este hermoso volumen ilustrado por Vicente Rojo se propone ofrecer una idea de la poesia de los antiguos nahuas a traves de los momentos literarios mas luminosos de las traducciones de Miguel Leon-Portilla, sin duda la persona que mas se ha acercado, y desde la mas honda sabiduria y la sensibilidad e inteligencia mas finas, a las sutilezas del mundo nahuatl...read more
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9786074450064 | Ediciones Era S.A. De C.V., February 1, 2009, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Este hermoso volumen ilustrado por Vicente Rojo se propone ofrecer una idea de la poesia de los antiguos nahuas a traves de los momentos literarios mas luminosos de las traducciones de Miguel Leon-Portilla, sin duda la persona que mas se ha acercado, y desde la mas honda sabiduria y la sensibilidad e inteligencia mas finas, a las sutilezas del mundo nahuatl.
Product Description: The Royal Road to the missions of old California are traced on this unique 12 foot long screenfold. Includes a foldout map six feet long and many illustrations and photos. Plus Biographies, information and text by foremost experts, including Harry Crosby and Exequial Ezcurra...read more
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9786079500801, titled "El Camino Real y las Misiones de la Peninsula de Baja California/ The Camino Real and the Missions of the Baja California Peninsula: The Camino Real and the Missions of the Baja California Peninsula" | Bilingual edition (Sunbelt Pubns, November 15, 2008), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The Royal Road to the missions of old California are traced on this unique 12 foot long screenfold.
Product Description: Este hermoso volumen ilustrado por Vicente Rojo se propone ofrecer una idea de la poesia de los antiguos nahuas a traves de los momentos literarios mas luminosos de las traducciones de Miguel Leon-Portilla, sin duda la persona que mas se ha acercado, y desde la mas honda sabiduria y la sensibilidad e inteligencia mas finas, a las sutilezas del mundo nahuatl...read more
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9788481097184 | Galaxia Gutenberg, June 30, 2008, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Este hermoso volumen ilustrado por Vicente Rojo se propone ofrecer una idea de la poesia de los antiguos nahuas a traves de los momentos literarios mas luminosos de las traducciones de Miguel Leon-Portilla, sin duda la persona que mas se ha acercado, y desde la mas honda sabiduria y la sensibilidad e inteligencia mas finas, a las sutilezas del mundo nahuatl.
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9789703244690 | New upd ex edition (Universidad Nacional Autonoma, June 30, 2007), cover price $9.95
Product Description: Este libro, obra del gran estudioso de las literaturas indigenas Miguel Leon-Portilla, analiza semejanzas y diferencias en las producciones literarias de estos dos pueblos, los generos practicados en una y otra, todo con abundantes ejemplos del pensamiento, sabiduria y belleza de la palabra antigua de dos pueblos cuyas creaciones se vinculan a las raices mas hondas en el ser de la America Nuestra...read more
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9789682326400 | Siglo Xxi Ediciones, July 30, 2006, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Este libro, obra del gran estudioso de las literaturas indigenas Miguel Leon-Portilla, analiza semejanzas y diferencias en las producciones literarias de estos dos pueblos, los generos practicados en una y otra, todo con abundantes ejemplos del pensamiento, sabiduria y belleza de la palabra antigua de dos pueblos cuyas creaciones se vinculan a las raices mas hondas en el ser de la America Nuestra.
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9789681341893 | Diana/Mexico, June 30, 2006, cover price $8.95
A Mexican historian, renown for his works on indigenous cultures, details a little-known aspect of the life of the famous conquistador who commissioned to the Molucas Islands in the heart of Asia, discovering California and the mouth of the Colorado River, and establishing the first maritime trade route between México and Perú.
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9788496107441 | Algaba Ediciones, October 30, 2005, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Examines the exploratory trips that Hernâan Cortâes and his captains made in the Pacific Ocean after the conquest of Mexico.
Product Description: Además de la trascripción del texto, León-Portilla nos ofrece un estudio minucioso del "Nican mopohua", una de las vastas composiciones indÃgenas que con mayor detalle y belleza refiere la aparición, mensaje y milagros de Tonantzin, "Madre de todos los dioses" en el cerro del Tepeyac hacia el siglo XVI...read more
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9789681662097 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 30, 2005, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Además de la trascripción del texto, León-Portilla nos ofrece un estudio minucioso del "Nican mopohua", una de las vastas composiciones indÃgenas que con mayor detalle y belleza refiere la aparición, mensaje y milagros de Tonantzin, "Madre de todos los dioses" en el cerro del Tepeyac hacia el siglo XVI.
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9789681340612 | Editorial Diana S.A. De C.V., March 10, 2005, cover price $8.95
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9780806136332 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $49.95
Product Description: Se ofrece una descripción del tesoro invaluable que conforman los testimonios de la expresión de numerosos grupos indÃgenas de México. Sus fuentes abarcan pinturas y bajorrelieves prehispánicos, códices, transcripciones en el alfabeto latino, realizadas a partir de la conquista española, y algunas manifestaciones modernas que apuntan a un nuevo florecimiento de la expresión indÃgena...read more
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9789681638771 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2003, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Se ofrece una descripción del tesoro invaluable que conforman los testimonios de la expresión de numerosos grupos indÃgenas de México.
Product Description: Esta antologÃa propone al lector un viaje a portentos y prodigios imaginativos. Incluye varios centenares de textos breves en los que los autores, de todos los tiempos, concretaron, con precisión y brevedad admirables, agudezas, minificciones, epigramas y fantasÃas que hacen un todo fascinante...read more
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9789681606114 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2003, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Esta antologÃa propone al lector un viaje a portentos y prodigios imaginativos.
Product Description: The first anthology in any language to represent the full trajectory of this remarkable literature. From new interpretations of the glyphic writings of the Maya through the poetic response to events in modern Chiapas, here is a history of Mexico and Central America from the Indian point of view...read more
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9780393020106 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry, anecdotes, and philosophy of the original peoples of Mesoamerica provides a history of Mexico and Central America through an Indian point of view.
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9780393324075 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The first anthology in any language to represent the full trajectory of this remarkable literature.
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9780806133645 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $32.95
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9789683696137 | Bilingual edition (Universidad Nacional Autonoma, September 1, 2001), cover price $11.95
Product Description: Con un prólogo de Ãngel MarÃa Garibay, esta es la primera y única obra de teatro que ha escrito Miguel León-Portilla, inédita hasta ahora. Ahondando en la visión náhuatl del mundo, el investigador emérito de la UNAM y miembro de El Colegio Nacional, nos lleva a imaginar cómo habrÃan concebido los antiguos mexicanos el drama existencial del hombre al tomar conciencia de su ser sin reposo, en un universo en que todo es fugaz...read more
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9789681656287 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Con un prólogo de Ãngel MarÃa Garibay, esta es la primera y única obra de teatro que ha escrito Miguel León-Portilla, inédita hasta ahora.
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9788449202162 | Dastin Export S.L., November 1, 2000, cover price $14.95
Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own?In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel León-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their extant poems in Nahuatl and in English.The poets - fourteen men and one woman - lived in the central highlands of Mexico and spoke Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, Texcocans, Tlaxcalans, and several other chiefdoms. These authors of "flower and song" (a Nahuatl metaphor for poetry, art, and symbolism) lived during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Sources for the poems included indigenous "codices," books of songs" now unfortunately lost, and renditions of them preserved by the Nahuatl oral tradition, which survived the Spanish Conquest and were recorded by several young natives in two manuscripts. (view table of contents)
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9780806124414 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor?
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9780806132914 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.95
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9789681652982 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1997, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: En estas páginas se reúnen las semblanzas de Nezahualcóyotl (1402-1472) y de Sebastián RamÃrez de Fuenleal (c.
Hardcover:
9789681648701 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, August 30, 1996, cover price $18.99
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