Chapter 2 On the Reception of the Florentine Codex: The First Italian Translation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: An Encyclopedia of Nahua Culture: Context and Content 1
5. Part I THE ART OF TRANSLATION
6. Chapter 1 Images in Translation: A Codex “Muy Historiado” 21
7. Chapter 2 On the Reception of the Florentine Codex: The First Italian Translation 37
8. Chapter 3 Reading between the Lines of Book 12 45
9. Chapter 4 The Art of War, the Working Class, and Snowfall: Reflections on the Assimilation of Western Aesthetics 63
10. Part II LORDS ROYAL AND SACRED
11. Chapter 5 Surviving Conquest: Depicting Aztec Deities in Sahagún’s Historia 77
12. Chapter 6 Fashioning Conceptual Categories in the Florentine Codex: Old-World and Indigenous Foundations for the Rulers and the Gods 95
13. Chapter 7 Teotl and Diablo: Indigenous and Christian Conceptions of Gods and Devils in the Florentine Codex 110
14. Part III ORDERING THE COSMOS
15. Chapter 8 Ecology and Leadership: Pantitlan and Other Erratic Phenomena 125
16. Chapter 9 Bundling Natural History: Tlaquimilolli, Folk Biology, and Book 11 139
17. Chapter 10 Powerful Words and Eloquent Images 152
18. Part IV SOCIAL DISCOURSE AND DEVIANCE
19. Chapter 11 Rhetoric as Acculturation: The Anomalous Book 6 167
20. Chapter 12 Flowers and Speech in Discourses on Deviance in Book 10 184
21. Chapter 13 Parts of the Body Order and Disorder 200
22. Bibliography 217
23. Contributors 231
24. Index 233