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Colonialismo
de Las Casas, Bartolomé
History, or Brief relation of the destruction of the West Indies, 1643
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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.
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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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