Winter Antique Art and Arms, Dec.14th., 2024
Lot 6513:
Antique Book The Incas: or, the Destruction of the Empire of Peru. Two volume set. 1810 Paris edition.
Les Incas presents a moment of the Conquistadors. Using the knowledge on the subject accumulated over the years and numerous readings, Marmontel traces an epic picture of the conquest of Peru by Pizarro and his companions. Not to praise it, but to underline its violence and show the monitory end of the empire of the most human people in the universe. It is a plea against religious fanaticism, understood as the spirit of intolerance and persecution, the spirit of hatred and vengeance, for the cause of a God whom one believes irritated, and of whom one makes himself the Ministers.
Pizarro remains responsible for the atrocities committed by his men, without really sharing them. One could notice the presence of attitudes of colonial domination in Alonzo de Molina’s love for the native Cora. These very real ambiguities are, however, inseparable from the philosophical commitment of ‘Les Incas.’ They even touch on the project of universal tolerance carried by Marmontel and largely contribute to the literary quality of a novel which had a success for more than a century.
SOURCE:
Luciano Pellegrini, review of the 2016 critical edition (Paris, Garnier) edited by Pierino Gallo, in: Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 32:1 (Fall 2019) 228-231.
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Width: 3 5/8", Height: 5 3/8". ~ .
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