Physical Description:

Quarto, viii, 187 pp. 215:127 mm., light age and damp staining, nice margins. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed

No copy NLI

Detailed Description:   

An engrossing account by Charles Dellon, a French adventurer who, in the early 1670s, settled in territory under Portuguese rule. The author, a French Doctor, describes how he fell into clutches of the Holy House in Goa, India. Reported as a heretic by several colonists to agents of the Inquisition, Dellon was imprisoned in a “noisome and dark dungeon” for four months. Surviving this he suffered in vermin-infested prisons in transit to Goa, interrogated, and placed in solitary confinement, incarcerated, repeatedly interrogated, and threatened with execution under the Holy Office of the Inquisition at Goa for almost four years before managing, incredibly, to be released. Returning to France he wrote this account, in French, describing his ordeal. The book was condemned by the Index. Dellon’s Account of the Inquisition at Goa is an exposé of gross injustice committed by the Church. There is an introduction and the text, comprised of forty-eight chapters and an appendix. Denllon’s narrative is a compelling and horrendous picture of the harshness of the Portuguese Inquisition.

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References:   

bibofthedamned.com/2017/11/12/dellons-account-of-the-inquisition-at-goa-1687/