Manuel Bilbao And The First Chilean Historical Novel. Critical Introduction And Annotated Edition Of The Great Inquisitor .
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This dissertation examines the presence of the Spanish Inquisition as a literary subject of historical fiction in Latin America in the XIX century and it focuses on the first Chilean historical novel entitled El Inquisidor Mayor (Lima 1852, 1859 and Buenos Aires, 1872) and its author Manuel Bilbao (Santiago 1827 – Buenos Aires 1895).