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Thursday 25 June 2026, 03:00 PM • Rome

114 Colonialismo

de Las Casas, Bartolomé

History, or Brief relation of the destruction of the West Indies, 1643

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€ 250 - 350

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Venice, at Marco Ginammi, 1643. 8vo. Printer's device on the title page, Spanish/Italian text in columns, woodcut headpieces, endpieces, and initials, light browning. Bound in red half leather with hardback corners and boards, title on the spine, minor defects.

Specialist Notes

In 1552, Bartolome de Las Casas published A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, a vibrant indictment of the violence committed by the Spanish in the New World. In this memoir, the Dominican friar pleads for the intervention of Emperor Charles V to put an end to the massacres and cruelty. By radically contrasting the innocent goodness of the Indians with the wickedness of the conquistadors, Las Casas depicts the Spanish invasion as a tragic scourge that distorted the Crown's providential mission: to reunify humanity in the name of the Catholic faith and Christian brotherhood. Las Casas's most passionate and celebrated work, a staunch defense of the natural rights of the American peoples and the eternal values of the human person.

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