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Historical person
1490–1552
Antonio de Mendoza was the first viceroy of New Spain, serving from 1535 to 1550, and later viceroy of Peru. He consolidated Spanish colonial administration, sponsored exploration and printing, and directed the suppression of the Mixtón War while attempting to regulate conflicts between settlers, officials and Indigenous communities.
Antonio de Mendoza also held the offices or ranks of ambassador. Antonio de Mendoza belonged to the House of Mendoza. Antonio de Mendoza was born in Granada and died in Lima.
In Gary Jennings’ Aztec Autumn, Francisco Tenamaztle, Pedro de Alvarado and Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza connect the narrative to the Caxcan resistance of 1540–42 and the large colonial campaign that suppressed it.
Series
The Aztec sequence follows Indigenous and mixed-ancestry protagonists through five centuries of Mexican history, from the height of Tenochtitlan to the wars that ended Spanish rule. The first novel gives Mixtli’s account of the empire under Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II and carries his life into the conquest. Later…
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