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
Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition grew to such an extent through the 16th century that it was feared anarchy would break out if Calvinism was not legalized. This fear was manipulated by Protestants and by those calling for Dutch independence in pamphlets such as "On the Unchristian, tyrannical Inquisition that Persecutes Belief, Written from the Netherlands" or "The Form of the Spanish Inquisition Introduced in Lower Germany in the Year 1550" published by Michael Lotter. In 1570, religious refugees presented a document to the Imperial Diet entitled "A Defence and true declaration of the things lately done in the lowe countrey" which described not only