Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and the Obras historicas

A descendant of the ruling house of Texcoco, schooled at the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco and in his last years interpreter of the viceregal Indian court, who wrote the Nahua past in Spanish from hieroglyphic paintings and from songs and papers he produced before the town council of Otumba. His work circulated in manuscript for nearly three centuries and was printed at Mexico only in 1891 and 1892, in a state centenary edition whose editor argues with his author in the footnotes.