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Book Condition: Used Aboutn very good
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA

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About Item: 2 works bound together. Relacion Historica del Auto General de Fe Que se Celebro en Madrid Este Ano de 1680. 308 pages with frontispiece lacks the foldout plate. Auto General de la Fe ... el encendido Azero del Santo Tribunal de la Inquisicion de Granada... 58 pages with end graved plate. (1672). Small octavo (7 3/4" x 6") bound in period vellum with handwritten title to spine. (Palau 201026; no record of second work) First editions. The prime purpose of a trial and death sentence was not to save a heretic's soul, but to ensure the public good and to strike terror into the people. Sentences and abjurations must be read out publicly. For the inquisitors, t was not enough to get the heretic to admit that he had sinned and declare that he had repented. He must be made to do so in public, so that is served as a lesson to all the faithful. This was the object of the ceremony known as the auto de fe. In the course of an auto de fe nobody was executed; only after the ceremony were those sentenced to death… Read More
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