In 1552, Francisco López de Gómara published Historia de las Indias y conquista de México, which was quickly followed by immediate success, numerous editions, and censorship. Drawing on Marcel Bataillon's lectures in the Collège de France, French scholars from four different universities have put together a new comprehensive critical edition of the first part of Gómara's work, known as Historia de las Indias. The collaborative work of these scholars, as Monique Mustapha writes, provides a “panorama de las viscitudes y censura sufridas por la Historia” based on a systematic comparison of the different editions of Gómara's work (p. 14).
This new edition of Gómara's Historia is divided into two parts. The first one comprises two informative preliminary essays, the criteria for editing and transcribing Gómara's work, the content of the Historia, a list of variants among the imprints, and endnotes. In one of the preliminary essays,...
