Orisnalda Nunes de Alencar
Hernán Cortez is one of the great figures of European adventures during the Age of Discovery. Conqueror, strategist, manipulator, cunning, bloodthirsty, pious, cruel, loved, hated, cultured, knowledgeable about laws-many adjectives have been attributed to him over the centuries. However, everyone agrees that his figure is inseparable from the conquest of America and the violent wars fought between the Spanish and the indigenous peoples.'