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Excerpt from History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, of Spain
It must be admitted, however, that an account of this reign could not have been undertaken at any preceding period with anything like the advantages at present afforded, owing to the light which recent researches of Spanish scholars, in the greater freedom of inquiry now enjoyed, have shed on some of its most interesting and least familiar features. The most important of the works to which I allude are, the History of the Inquisition, from official documents, by its secre tary, Llorente; the analysis of the political institutions of the kingdom, by such writers as Marina, Sempere, and Capmany; the literal version, now made for the first time, of the spanish-arab chronicles, by Conde the collection of original and unpublished documents, illustrating the history of Columbus and the early Castilian navigators, by Navarrete; and lastly, the c0pious illustrations of Isabella's reign by Clemencin, the late lamented secretary of the Royal Academy of History, forming the sixth volume of its valuable Memoirs.
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