Des Cannibales By Montaigne

In August of 1563, Michel de Montaigne, the famous French essayist, was introduced to three Brazilian cannibals who were visiting Europe, at the invitation of King Charles the Ninth. The three men had never before left Brazil, had just been subjected to a long interrogation by the king. They have surely had a severe case of culture shock. However, they had enough energy to respond to the questions of Montaigne, about what they thought of their new surroundings. they looked on European society with such fresh eyes, their observations make the familiar seem ridiculous. First, the Brazilians expressed the wonder that "so many tall, bearded men, all strong and well-armed" (the king's guard) were willing to take orders from a small child. the Brazilians
Montaigne makes the more provocative claim that, as brutal as these Brazilian cannibals may be, they are not nearly as brutal as 16th-century Europeans themselves. To make his case, Montaigne cites various evidence: the wholesome simplicity and basic nobility of native Brazilian life; the fact that some European forms of punishment — which involved feeding people to dogs and pigs while they were still alive — were decidedly more horrendous than the native Brazilian practice of eating one's enemies after they are dead; and the humane, egalitarian character of the Brazilians' moral sensibility, which was on display in their recorded observations. He writes: "We all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. Indeed we seem to have no other criterion of truth and reason than the type and kind of opinions and customs current in the land where we live. There we always see a perfect religion, the perfect political system, the perfect and most accomplished way of doing
His new patron was Coronado. He was to build the Saint Teresa and the surrounding masterpiece that went around her within the church of Santa Maria Della Vittoria. The statue of Saint Teresa was not common during this time due to the toe-curling orgasm that she was having while the love angle was standing over her. In her write, she describes this angle that he was not tall but short. He was very beautiful, his face was so inflamed that he must have been so inflamed that he must have been one of the most ranked of angles. In his hands, Teresa saw a golden spear and at the iron tip, there seemed to be a point of fire. With this, he plunged it into saint Teresa several