Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de Los Senores de la Nueva EspanaCompiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering but not an abandonment of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre