Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe volume 4
Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe volume 4
J C L Simonde De Jean Charles Lonard Simonde Sismondi
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" JoAo DK Barros, Dccad. Ii. Lib. Viii. * Among many other instances is tliat of Vasco de Gama burn- ing an Egyptian vessel, with two hundred and fifty soldiers o\i 41G ON THE LITKUATURE wlicn torrents of blood and the agonies of the victims seemed to excite feelings of compassion in the minds of the soldiery, the more ferocious priests rushed forward to renew, with fanatical zeal, their relenting fury. Tribunals of the Inquisi- tion were established at Cioa and at Diu, and innu- merable victim...s perished in the most frightful tor- ments. I cannot admit that it is inconsistent with my subject thus to denounce these great political crimes, and to bring them, in all their naked hor- ror, once more to view. The same critics who, in our own times, have attracted attention to the sub- ject of Spanish and Portuguese literature, repre- senting it as the combined result, the finished pro- duction of the rich spirit of chivalric manners and romance, have at the same time applauded the re- ligious j)rinci])le which animated the Christians; the disinterested zeal which led them to these wars, whose sole object was the glory of God ; and their impassioned poetical life, which never embraced views of gain.
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