Author: Hofstede, Petrus.
Title: Rare literature 1769 | De Belisarius van den Heer Marmontel beoordeeld, en de kwade zeden der vermaardste heidenen aangetoond, ten bewyze hoe onbedagtsaam men dezelve om hunne deugdsaamheid verhemeld heeft, door P. Hofstede, derde druk, Rotterdam Bosch en Arrenberg 1969, [12]+274, in -8.
Description: Cardboard decorative paper binding, in -8, 22 x 15 cm.Third edition in good condition (first edition also 1769). With dedication to Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, with engraved vignet by N. van der Meer after G. van Moelingen. Edged sightly frayed but further in good condition.Belisaire is a banned French novel about the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius by Jean- Francois Marmontel. It popularised the apocryphal tale of his being reduced to beggary by Justinian I despite his great services to the empire, citing it as an example of the ingratitude of those in power towards their faithful servants and indicting the French king Louis XV by proxy as another such ungrateful monarch.A plea for religious tolerance. Marmontel condemned the violence against the native Americans, indigenous people. This plea was not suited in the time of the French monarchy during the ancien regime, based on intolerance and intimidation. The archbishop of Paris Mgr. Chrisophe de Beaumont banned the work of Marmontel in 1767. Also in The Netherlands there was a vivid dispute, this time on the idea that also non-christians (heidenen) could join in heaven. This is called the “Socratische oorlog”.In this book Petrus Hofstede provides us with his point of view in this dispute.pleidooi voor religieuze tolerantie – plea for (religious) tolerance - toegang hemel - heidenen - Marmontel   Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) was a French historian, writer and member of the Encyclopedistes movement. In 1772 he became the official historian of France (historiographe de France). He worked with Alembert, Helvétius, d’Holbach, Condillac, Turgot, Buffon, Condorcet and Voltaire.

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