Repository logo
  • English
  • Italiano
  • Log In
    Have you forgotten your password?
Repository logo
Repository logo
  • Archive
  • Series/Journals
  • EUT
  • Events
  • Statistics
  • English
  • Italiano
  • Log In
    Have you forgotten your password?
  1. Home
  2. EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
  3. Monografie
  4. Encountering Otherness. Diversities and Transcultural Experiences in Early Modern European Culture
  5. Catholic civilization and the evil savage: Juan Nuix facing the Spanish Conquista of the New World
 
  • Details
  • Metrics
Options

Catholic civilization and the evil savage: Juan Nuix facing the Spanish Conquista of the New World

Guasti, Niccolò
2011
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
ISBN
978-88-8303-306-3
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/4667
  • Book Chapter

Abstract
This paper analyzes the Riflessioni imparziali sopra l’umanità degli Spagnuoli nell’Indie, published in 1780 by the exiled Spanish Jesuit, Juan Nuix (1740- 1783). This work, conceived as an extensive commentary on Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes and Robertson’s History of America, presented two main points: a strong censure of the black legend version of the Spanish enterprises in America and, secondly, a peculiar point of view on 'otherness' in relation to the Spanish conquista of America. The most interesting aspect of the Riflessioni is its explicit attempt, according to the ideological positions of a ‘conservative’ Jesuit like Nuix, to revive – through a modern language – the ‘Imperial Spain paradigm' within a Counter-reformist frame: to this purpose he simply turned upside down, by claiming them as positive, all the black legend arguments.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Niccolò Guasti, “Catholic civilization and the evil savage: Juan Nuix facing the Spanish 'Conquista' of the New World”, in Guido Abbattista (edited by), Encountering Otherness. Diversities and Transcultural Experiences in Early Modern European Culture, pp. 285-302.
Languages
en
File(s)
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Download
Name

guasti.pdf

Format

Adobe PDF

Size

140.41 KB

Indexed by

 Info

Open Access Policy

Share/Save

 Contacts

EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste

OpenstarTs

 Link

Wiki OpenAcces

Archivio Ricerca ArTS

Built with DSpace-CRIS software - Extension maintained and optimized by 4Science

  • Cookie settings
  • Privacy policy
  • End User Agreement
  • Send Feedback