Chimalpahin (1579–1660)
Chimalpahin (1579–1660)
Chimalpahin (b. 26 May 1579; d. 1660), premier writer of Nahuatl prose. Don Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, who was born in Amecameca, Mexico, and was most active in the first two decades of the seventeenth century, produced a mass of historical writings on indigenous Mexico. Although he never lost his close identification with his homeland, his career unfolded in Mexico City. Chimalpahin wrote copiously about both Chalco and Mexico Tenochtitlán, covering both preconquest and post-conquest periods. His annals represent a large range of Nahuatl thought and expression.
See alsoNahuatl .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Susan Schroeder, Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco (1991).
Additional Bibliography
Benoist, Valérie. "La construcción de una comunidad nahua/española en las relaciones de Chimalpahin." Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 34 (2003): 205-208.
Namala, Doris Mathilde. "Chimalpahin in His Time: An Analysis of the Writings of a Nahua Annalist of Seventeenth-Century Mexico Concerning His Own Lifetime." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.
James Lockhart