Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc and the Cronica mexicana of about 1598

A Mexica noble wrote the history of Tenochtitlan in Spanish about 1598, in a hundred and ten chapters built almost entirely out of speeches - the elders in council, the embassies, the demands of tribute. Two nineteenth-century authorities declared the book lost while copies of it sat in Mexican libraries; its first printing was made in London in 1848 inside a folio so costly that the work stayed effectively unpublished until a Mexico City press set it in 1878.