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Torquemada, Fray Juan de

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Fray Juan de Torquemada Torquemada c. 1562 Santiago Tlatelolco 1624 M P0892

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela guitar harp rabel guitarra arpa Cleric Ecclesiastical Church Author

Years active Place active Century Region
Mexico 17cent/1/early America
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Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) was a Franciscan friar, missionary and historian in Spanish colonial Mexico, and is considered the "leading Franciscan chronicler of his generation."[1] He is most famous for his monumental history of the indigenous peoples entitled Los veinte y un libros rituales y Monarquía indiana, commonly known as Monarquía indiana ("Indian Monarchy"), published initially in Spain in 1615 with a license obtained by Torquemada.[2] Monarquia Indiana was the "prime text of Mexican history, and was destined to influence all subsequent chronicles until the twentieth century."[3] The fact that it was republished a century later in 1723, in what has been considered the standard edition, is an indication of its importance.[4] It was used by later historians, the Franciscan Augustin de Vetancurt and most importantly by eighteenth-century Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavijero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Juan_de_Torquemada acc. 22/01/15

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1614 Juan de Torquemada, Tercera parte de los veinte y un libros rituales y monarquía indiana.
1615 Fray Juan de Torquemada, Los veinte i un libros rituales i Monarchia Indiana.


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