Moctezuma

sculpture by Vilar

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discussed in biography

  • In Manuel Vilar

    …independence; Aztec emperor Montezuma (1850; Moctezuma); Tlahuicole (1851), a legendary warrior from Tlaxcala who defended his people against the Aztecs; and La Malinche (1852; La Malinche or Doña Marina), the first native woman of Mexico who converted to Christianity and who also served as Hernán Cortés’s translator.

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