LLORENTE, JUAN ANTONIO. Histoire critique de l’Inquisition d’Espagne: depuis l’époque de son établissement par Ferdinand V, jusqu’au règne de Ferdinand VII, tirée Des pièces originales des archives du Conseil de la Suprême et de celles des Tribunaux subalternes du Saint-Office.
Histoire critique de l'Inquisition d'Espagne: depuis l'époque de son établissement par Ferdinand V, jusqu'au règne de Ferdinand VII, tirée Des pièces originales des archives du Conseil de la Suprême et de celles des Tribunaux subalternes du Saint-Office. Traduite de l'Espagnol sur le manuscript et sous les yeux de l'Auteur; par Alexis Pellier. 4 volumes.
Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, Delaunay, P.Mongie, 1817-1818, Modern imprinted decorative cloth, with mylar covers, XLVIII, 493 and engr. portrait and engr. coat of arms of the author; IV, 554; XII, 497; VIII, 504 pp. A few minor traces of use inside, some brownings. All volumes signed by the author himself. Name of previous owner on titlepages. Complete first edition in good condition.
* Juan Antionio Llorente (1756-1823), was a Spanish historian and priest. Llorente, who had been the Inquisition’s general secretary in 1789, became a Bonapartist and published this critical history in 1817 during his French exile, based on his privileged access to the archives of the tribunal. This is his magnum opus, being the first fully documented account of the Inquisition since it’s establishment in 1478.
Possibly as a result of Llorente’s criticisms, the Inquisition was once again temporarily abolished during the three-year Liberal interlude known as the Trienio liberal. In 1826 the last person was condemned and executed by the Inquisition. Finally, on 15 July 1834, the Spanish Inquisition was definitively abolished by a Royal Decree signed by regent Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand VII’s liberal widow.
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