Abstract

DOMENICI, Davide  and  LAURENCICH MINELLI, Laura. Domingo de Betanzos' Gifts to Pope Clement VII in 1532-1533: Tracking the Early History of Some Mexican Objects and Codices in Italy. Estud. cult. náhuatl [online]. 2014, vol.47, pp.169-209. ISSN 0071-1675.

In this article we identify the Dominican Domingo de Betanzos as the anonymous bearer of a rich gift of Mexican objects and codices offered in Bologna to Pope Clement VII (1533), as recorded in the Historie di Bologna (1548) of the Bolognese Dominican Leandro Alberti. Joining this information with additional descriptions of another gift that Betanzos had given to the Pope the previous year in Rome, we attempt to track the history of some outstanding ancient Mexican objects and codices that pertained to Italian collections, museums and libraries during 16^th and 17^th centuries.

Keywords : European Collections; Mesoamerican Codices; Domingo de Betanzos.

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