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Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice. In doing so, he burned Maya manuscripts (codices) which contained knowledge of Maya religion and civilization, and the history of the American continent. Nonetheless, his work in documenting and researching the Maya was indispensable in achieving the current understanding of their culture, to the degree that Mayanist William Gates asserted that "ninety-nine percent of what we today know of the Mayas, we know as the result either of what Landa has told us in the pages that follow, or have learned in the use and study of what he told". He also described that "it is an equally safe statement that...he burned ninety-nine times as much knowledge of Maya history and sciences as he has given us". (From Wikipedia) More about Diego de Landa:
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| | Books by Diego de Landa: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579, contrib.: Relaciones de Yucatán (2 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1898-1900), ed. by José María Asensio- Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579: Relation des Choses de Yucatan de Diego de Landa: Texte Espagnol et Traduction Française en Regard, Comprenant les Signes du Calendrier et de l'Alphabet Hiéroglyphique de la Langue Maya (Collection de Documents Dans les Langues Indigenes v3, in Spanish and French; Paris: A. Bertrand, 1864), contrib. by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg
- Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579: Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (Baltimore: The Maya Society, 1937), ed. by William Gates (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579: Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (second edition; Baltimore: The Maya Society, 1937), ed. by William Gates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Additional books by Diego de Landa in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579: Relaciones de Yucatán. (Est. tip. "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra,", 1898), also by José María Asensio and Cristóbal de Pedraza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579: Relation des choses de Yucatan (Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan) texte espagnol et traduction française en regard; édition complète accompagnée de notes tirées des principaux auteurs anciens et modernes précédée d'une Introduction sur la vie et l'oeuvre de l'auteur et suivie d'un index desmatières contenues dans lat Relation (Les Éditions Genet, 1928), also by Jean Genet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579: Relation des choses de Yucatan : de Diego de Landa ; texte espagnol et traduction française en regard comprenant les signes du calendrier et de l'alphabet hiéroglyphique de la langue maya accompagné de documents divers historiques et chronologiques, avec une grammaire et un vocabulaire abrégés français-maya précédés d'un essai sur les sources de l'histoire primitive du Mexique et de l'Amérique centrale, etc., d'après les monuments égyptiens et de l'histoire primitive de l'Égypt d'après les monuments américains, (Arthus Bertrand, éditeur 21, rue Hautefeuille ;, 1864), also by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, S. E. B. Bouverie-Pusey, Arthus Bertrand, and George E. Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579: A study of the manuscript Troano (Govt. Print. Off., 1882), also by Cyrus Thomas and Daniel Garrison Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
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