Editing Pedro de Alvarado (section)

==References in modern culture==
*Alvarado is portrayed in [[Lew Wallace]]'s novel ''The Fair God''. One of Montezuma's daughters falls in love with him in a dream before she had ever seen him, when they do meet he returns her love and gives her an iron cross necklace so she can convert to Christianity. She is killed during the battle of La Noche Triste. This is a rare positive depiction of Pedro de Alvarado.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
*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.<ref name="Zabala 2017 p208">{{cite web | last=Zabala | first=Horacio | title=Anteproyecto para Tzinacán | website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art | date=October 28, 2017 | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/819649 | access-date=January 25, 2024}}</ref>
*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 conquest of the Aztec Empire|Spanish-Mexica war]] and features a number of chapters from Pedro's point of view.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
*Alvarado is portrayed by [[Michel Brown]] in [[Hernán (TV series)|Hernán]], a Spanish, Nahuatl, and Maya language historical drama television series that revolves around [[Hernán Cortés]].