Istoria o brevissima relatione della distruttione dell'Indie Occidentali

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Author: Bartolomé "Bartholomaei " de Las Casas (1484-1566) Year: 1626 Publisher: Marco Ginammi Place: Venice Description: xvi+154+[2] pages with woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Quatro (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in modern burgundy leather with five raised spine bands with gilt lettering and decoration to spine with gilt ruled edges to coveres and marbled end papers and paste downs. Translated by Giacomo Castellani, printed in double column with the Spanish and Italian texts side by side. Ginammi includes a list of his latest publications at the end, on T6r, in which this work is listed. First Italian translation uses the Spanish text from the 1552 Seville edition, as specified on the title-page. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ) is an account written in 1542 (published in Seville in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then-Prince Philip II of Spain. One of the stated purposes for writing the account was Las Casas's fear of Spain coming under divine punishment and his concern for the souls of the native peoples. The account was one of the first attempts by a Spanish writer of the colonial era to depict the unfair treatment that the indigenous people endured during the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the Greater Antilles, particularly the island of Hispaniola. Las Casas's point of view

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