Andrew Laird, Aztec Latin. Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2024). 465 pp.

Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi

doi:10.22201/iih.30618002e.2026.72.78815

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.30618002e.2026.72.78815

Enviado: 2025-06-02

Publicado: 2026-06-29

Andrew Laird, Aztec Latin. Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2024). 465 pp.

Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi^›^‹

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas

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Laird, Andrew. 2016a. “Nahua Humanism and Political Identity in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. A Latin Letter from Antonio Cortés Totoquihuatzin, Native Ruler of Tlacopan, to Emperor Charles V (1552)”. En Latin and the Early Modern World. Linguistic Identity and the Polity from Petrarch to the Habsburg Novelists. Edición de Trine Hass, Noreen Humble y Marianne Pade, 127-172. Copenhague: Renaessanceforum.
Laird, Andrew. 2016b. “Nahua Humanism and Ethnohistory. Antonio Valeriano and a Letter from the Rulers of Azcapotzalco to Philip II, 1561”. Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 52: 23-74.
Laird, Andrew. 2016c. “Aztec and Roman Gods in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Strategic Uses of Classical Learning in Sahagun’s Historia general”. En Altera Roma. Art and Empire from Mérida to Mexico. Edición de John Pohl y Claire Lyons: 147-167. Los Ángeles: University of California, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.
Laird, Andrew. 2017. “A Mirror for Mexican Princes. Reconsidering the Context and Latin Source for the Nahuatl Translation of Aesop’s Fables”. En Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature. Edición de Barry Taylor y Alejandro Coroleu, 132-167. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Laird, Andrew. 2019. “From the Epistolae et Evangelia (c. 1540) to the Espejo divino (1607). Indian Latinist and Nahuatl Religious Literature at the College of Tlatelolco”. Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures 2: 2-28. https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.v2i0.8522.
Laird, Andrew. 2024. “The Earliest Known Text in Latin by a Nahuatl Speaker. Juan de Tlaxcala, ‘Verba sociorum domini Petri Tlacauepantzi’ (1541)”. Ethnohistory 71 (4): 509-536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11513026.
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