Hernando de Ribas, Nahua translator of Tetzcuco (d. 1597)

A Nahua from Tetzcuco, among the first pupils of the college at Tlatelolco, who translated Latin and Spanish into Nahuatl for sense rather than word by word, and who is named in print as the man with whose help Alonso de Molina composed the Nahuatl grammar and dictionary still used today, and Juan de Gaona the Dialogos de la paz. Neither title page carries his name. The attribution survives in one Franciscan's prologue of 1606, nine years after his death.