Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (born 1402)

Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani)

Tlatoani of Texcoco

Nezahualcoyotl, "Fasting Coyote" was a scholar, philosopher (tlamatini), warrior, architect, poet and ruler (tlatoani) of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian era Mexico. Unlike other high-profile Mexican figures from the century preceding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec…