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The organization of the ten books that make up the Storia followed the norms and precepts of Enlightenment-era historical writing. It sought to maintain objectivity, to be grounded in wide documentary foundations from authoritative sources, and to structure narrative as a progressive evolutive sequence beginning with a description of Mexico’s natural environment and ending with a group of “dissertations.” In these dissertations, Clavijero discusses the virtues and, more frequently, the defects of the works that learned foreigners had written about Mexico. He particularly focused on those of the Scottish author William Robertson. In order to contextualize Clavijero’s identification of Antonio de Mendoza as the man responsible for creating the Codex Mendoza and in order to understand the function of the now-attributed manuscript in Clavijero’s work, in this section I pay special attention to Clavijero’s explicit and implicit proclamations on the Storia’s title page, dedication, introduction, and bibliography.