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From Argentina to U.S.A.About this Item: 1770. Condition: Fine. Decree of the Inquisition forbidding and ordering censorship of several books, including a history of the Jesuits, following the expulsion of the Order from the Americas. Folio, (600 x 425 mm). Minor marginal losses now restored not touching printed surface, lower margin with tear affecting contemporary manuscript entry, two tiny holes in the middle due to several folding s, still overall good copy of a broadside that was never meant to survive. 6,500 $ Extremely rare broadside of the Inquisition printed in Mexico, forbidding the reading and acquisition of several books, one of which a history of the Jesuits (Histoire imparciale des Jesuites depuis leur establessiment jusque a leur premiere expulsion, 1768), possibly speaking favorably of the Order, recently expelled from Spanish territories, including the Americas. As customary with this type of proclamation, not all works are forbidden in their totality, some are just called for partial censorship, which is requested in detail for a few books.
Signed at bottom by Julian Vicente Gonzalez de Andia, as the Berkeley copy. The other books forbidden here are: Therese Philosophe, ou memoire server a l Histoire de Dom. Dirrag (1762), L Overture de l Assamblee (1748), by Nordberg, and Histoire de Frederic Guillaume I.
We can only find one copy of this broadside held institutionally, at Berkeley (OCLC 21645783). Seller Inventory # ABE-412 2.
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By Henry Charles Lea (Book)7editions publishedbetween1986and1997inFrenchand held by57 WorldCat memberlibrariesworldwideThis comprehensive three-volume history of the medieval Inquisition by the influential American scholar Henry Charles Lea,first published in 1888, was firmly based on primary sources, and adopted a rationalist approach that departed from the pioustone of earlier histories of the middle ages. Lea was convinced that the Inquisition was not arbitrarily devised and implementedbut was an inevitable consequence of forces that were dominant in thirteenth-century Christian society. In order to give asfull a picture of the Inquisition as possible, Lea. By Nicolau Eimeric (Book)5editions publishedbetween1972and1993inPortugueseand held by24 WorldCat memberlibrariesworldwideA partial reprint of the text by Nicolau Eymerich (1376) with commentaries and additions by Francisco Peña (1578). A collectionof instructions for the use of Inquisition officials, including descriptions of the victims of persecution (e.g. Heretics,Conversos, etc.), procedures to be followed (e.g. Denunciation, investigation, interrogation, sentencing), as well as thepowers invested in the Inquisitors (e.g.
Torture, imprisonment, confiscation). The preface to this edition (pp. 9-28), byLeonardo Boff, denounces the Inquisition as an intolerant, un-Christian institution, established to eradicate all that isdifferent.
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