{"product_id":"the-florentine-codex-jeanette-favrot-peterson-9781477318409","title":"The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag佖 and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled \u003ci\u003eGeneral History of the Things of New Spain\u003c\/i\u003e, known as the Florentine Codex (1575-1577)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this edited volume, experts from multiple disciplines analyze the manuscript's bilingual texts and more than 2,000 painted images and offer fascinating, new insights on its twelve books. The contributors examine the \"three texts\" of the codex--the original Nahuatl, its translation into Spanish, and its painted images. Together, these constitute complementary, as well as conflicting, voices of an extended dialogue that occurred in and around Mexico City. The volume chapters address a range of subjects, from Nahua sacred beliefs, moral discourse, and natural history to the Florentine artists' models and the manuscript's reception in Europe. \u003ci\u003eThe Florentine Codex\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeanette Favrot Peterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477318402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477318409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 8.80w x 1.00d","brand":"Jeanette Favrot Peterson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056848466175,"sku":"9781477318409","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96ff1acf-4735-4387-a5b1-3951959abd1d.jpg?v=1685043595","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-florentine-codex-jeanette-favrot-peterson-9781477318409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}