New World cultivation and sacrifice (the Templo Mayor, Mexico City, fenced around with a symbolic grove of exotic American plants). From Diego Valades, Rhetorica Christiana (Perugia, 1579). Reproduced courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Savage Metropolis / Savage Gods of the Aztecs / New World Tillers / Druid Sacrificial Grove / Charles I on the scaffold
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