Spanish Inquisition or the Victim of the Inquisition", which has been attributed to Spaniard Luiz Gutiérrez, and is based on the case of María de Bohórquez, ferociously criticizes the Inquisition and its representatives. The Inquisition also appears in one of the chapters of the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which imagines an encounter between Jesus and the Inquisitor General. One of the best known stories of Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum", explores along the same lines the use of torture by the Inquisition. The novel Cornelia Bororquia was published in France, probably by a French writer
Spanish Inquisition with merely cultural ones, with no significant racial element. Challenging some of the claims of revisionist historians is Toby Green in "Inquisition, the Reign of Fear", who calls the claim by revisionists that torture was only rarely applied by inquisitors, a "worrying error of fact". Historian Thomas F. Madden has written about popular myths of the Inquisition. The literature of the 18th century approaches the theme of the Inquisition from a critical point of view. In "Candide" by Voltaire, the Inquisition appears as the epitome of intolerance and arbitrary justice in Europe. During the Romantic Period, the Gothic novel, which