Montezuma: Lord of the Aztecs

269 pp. Includes 32 color plates and roughly 150 black-and-white illustrations. "Drawing on the few surviving contemporary documents of the Aztecs, on Spanish chronicles of the period of the Conquest and on post-Conquest accounts by native aristocrats such as F. de Alva Ixtlilxochilt, the author has vividly recaptured the splendour and complexity of the ill-fated Montezuma. His life is traced from his birth to a minor prince of the ruling family, through his traditional education in the temple and warrior schools to his eventual appointment as "Great Speaker" of the Aztec nation."--jacket