Bernardino de Sahagún’s work, [BLANK-1], compiled around 155…
Bernardino de Sahagún’s work, , compiled around 1557-1580, was criticized by Sahagún’s superiors in the Catholic Church for its sympathetic portrayal of the Aztecs. It was shelved and only rediscovered 200 years after it was lost. It represents an important piece of history in terms of documenting early European contact with Native Americans. It contains passages in the Nahuatl language (sometimes with Spanish translations), as well as illustrations of contact between the cultures made by Native American artists. One image from the work shows the moment that Moctezuma II was taken captive by the Spanish.