Charles V
King of Spain from 1516 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519, to whom Cortés addressed his letters from Mexico. Latin verses on the Nuremberg map of 1524 praise him as a greater Caesar.
1500–1558
The First Printed Map of Tenochtitlan
Plan of Tenochtitlan and map of the Gulf of Mexico, woodcut, in the Latin edition of Hernán Cortés's second letter (Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1524) · printed at Nuremberg, March 1524; the city as Cortés's men saw it in 1519–1520
Res fuerat quondam pręſtans, & Gloria ſumma
Orbis ſubiectus Cęſaris Imperio,
Hic longe pręſtat, cuius nunc Orbis Eous,
Et Nouus, atqꝫ alter panditur Auſpitijs.
Once it was a great thing and the highest glory that the world was ruled by Caesar. This ruler far surpasses him: under his command the Eastern world, and a new and second world, now lies open.