Diego Munoz Camargo and the Historia de Tlaxcala

A Tlaxcalan mestizo who served the Spaniards as interpreter and wrote, in Castilian, the only surviving monograph on his own city and its people. Torquemada quarried the manuscript for the Monarquia Indiana; the text itself circulated for three centuries as a Pedazo de Historia because it had lost its opening, reached print in full only in 1892 as a Mexican state gift to the Chicago Exposition, and carries an annotator who contradicts the author in the footnotes.