Word: cortese
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Nonsense, barked Rivera, "It's Cortes." "I have been a victim of history," explained Rivera, whose lowbrowed Cortés fits current Mexican Nationalist versions of the Spanish adventurer. "All the pictures of Cortés that historians have shown us up to now are really copies of Emperor...
Illuminations and cathedral bas-reliefs accompany the first two essays, "The Spirit of the Middle Ages" and "Medieval Life"; the third is illustrated by early Renaissance masterpieces of Giotto and Botticelli. Later comes "The Age of Exploration" with its hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and...
From Cortes to Christ
Then Cortes becomes imperialism, sniffed in figures of war leaders and Wilson, clutching big bags of money. I last panel shows Christ, returned to ear and chopping down his cross in port for the things that were being done its name.
* But not, by a long shot, the first in North America: Cortes founded one in Mexico in 1524.