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Esta edición reúne cuatro facsímiles de textos publicados como consecuencia de la muerte de Carlos III en diciembre de 1788: discursos de Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos y de Francisco Cabarrús ante la Real Sociedad Económica de Madrid, y relaciones de exequias en la madrileña Iglesia de San Ginés y en la Iglesia de Santiago de los Españoles de Roma. Tres de ellos proceden de los fondos de la Real Academia de la Historia, mientras que el Elogio Fúnebre romano proviene de la biblioteca del Palacio Real. La presentación de Feliciano Barrios, Académico Secretario de la Real Academia,...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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