Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Bernal Díaz del Castillo was a Spanish conquistador who took part in Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico in the early sixteenth century. In old age he wrote a detailed eyewitness history of the conquest. His account describes the astonishing volume and variety of goods in the great market of Tlatelolco, an important source on the economy of the Aztec Empire.