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
Historical revision of the Inquisition empire and ultimately contributed to its defeat during the Spanish–American War of 1898. However both Juan Antonio Llorente's in his "Histoire critique de l'Inquisition espagnole" (1817) and Lea had access to original documents. For a long time, the Spanish Inquisition had been associated principally with persecution of Protestants. Nineteenth-century historian José Amador de los Ríos brought a focus to bear on the situation of Spain's large "converso" population. The two most significant and extensively-cited sources of this revised analysis of the historiography of the inquisitorial proceedings are "Inquisition" (1988) by Edward Peters and "The Spanish Inquisition: An Historical Revision" (1997)