Pedro de Alvarado is identified as the torturer of Tzinacán, the narrator in Jorge Luis Borges's story The Writing of the God, first published in 1949. Pedro de Alvarado is a character in the historical novel The Serpent and the Eagle by Edward Rickford. The multiple-protagonist novel recounts the first few months of the Spanish-Mexica war and features a number of chapters from Pedro's point of view. He is a character in László Passuth's book, Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico, a novel about Hernán Cortés and the conquest of the Aztec Empire, first published in 1937. See also Black legend (Spain) La Noche Triste Mixtón War Spanish Conquest Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire Tecún Umán Notes References Sources Further reading External links Alvarado family genealogy Alvarado y Contreras family genealogy Spanish conquistadors Governors of Guatemala People of New Spain 1490s births 1541 deaths Colonial Central America Colonial Guatemala Extremaduran conquistadors Spanish generals Deaths by horse-riding accident War-related deaths People from Badajoz Spanish conquests in the Americas 16th century in Central America 16th century in Guatemala 16th-century Spanish people 16th-century explorers