Nezahualcoyotl · Philosophy
Nezahualcoyotl as ruler: the exile who became tlatoani, the lawgiver of some eighty statutes, the engineer of the great dike and the aqueducts, the maker of the gardens of Tetzcotzinco, and the patron of a court of sages - wisdom exercised as statecraft, by a king who never forgot that all kings die.
You learned that Nezahualcoyotl united statecraft and wisdom: a legal code of some eighty laws, the great dike across Lake Texcoco and the Chapultepec aqueduct, the gardens of Tetzcotzinco, and a flourishing court of sages - all held by a ruler whose poetry never forgot that lords and their works must vanish. Explain…
Leads to Marcus Aurelius.
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