Nezahualcóyotl
1402 CE – 1472 CElived
Texcoco, Acolhuacan
- Nahua Philosophy
Ruler, engineer and poet whose surviving verse asks whether anything on earth is real or lasting, and answers mostly no: Nahua philosophy done in flower and song.
Known for
- flower and song
- the fleetingness of earth
- the unknowable giver of life