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Ascendance to the Eagle Throne

Viceregal Continuity of an Aztec Legacy

By: A. Robert Lauer, Paul Melton

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Hardcover | 9 February 2026

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194 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27

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In November 1680, an arch designed by Carlos de Sig¼enza y G³ngora and constructed in the Plaza of Santo Domingo in Mexico City audaciously displayed a central panel depicting the incoming viceroy, Tom¡s de la Cerda, enthroned on a Mexican eagleand surrounded by ancient Mexica emperors. Sig¼enza's mirror for princes, Teatro de virtudes, curiously and cleverly endows the viceroy with two bodies, one natural and the other immortal and collective. This book explores the centrality of this royal paradigm in understanding Sig¼enza's innovative vision of viceregal governance as a socially unifying force.

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