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<p align="center">“<em>History of the New World</em>” By Girolamo Benzoni</p>
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                The book “History of the New World” should be preserved due to the fact that it shows how we use to act and some actions that we should never repeat and stepping outside the box to be able to reach a goal. Within the book “History of The New World’’ by Girolamo Benzoni, he wrote about a “trip” that he took to the “New World” (what is now the United States). He wrote the book in the year 1565 and had it republished in 1572. The book was written about his fifteen year journey to the “New World” in the book he elaborates on what he does, what he has endured, and what he see’s his fellow Spaniards do to the Indians of the land. He tells on how he is disgusted by some of the things he has seen while being over there. At this time frame in our history people were finding ways to be political and the religious power was very strong. The pope had a lot of pull and could tell pretty much everyone what to do. Not only was that an important thing, but the start of a new country in a different part of the world was major thing going on. The new discoveries over there and the event that were taking place in the new trade routes.<!--more-->

                The writings of book weren’t too uncommon, especially since the “printing press had made it a lot easier for books to be reprinted” (The Humanities Tradition Vol. 2 pg. B3.116) it allowed more people to read books. We don’t come across to many of the books that were printed back in the 1500’s that were explaining what went on in the “new world” Benzoni had the same political mindset in which he wanted to change something so he chose to be innovated and come up with a new route to try and spread his message due to his low statue in society. He wrote about the pros and cons of what was going on in the “new world” which wasn’t to uncommon it was the magnitude of the negative things he wrote about is what caused the stir.

                This was a very unusual tactic; the biggest part about it being unusual is the fact that the book was dedicated to the pope. It is dedicated to Pope Pius the 4<sup>th</sup> (The Catholic Encyclopedia) in which alone was a very strange gesture to do since for starters he did not know the pope or have any type of relationship with him, and the book is to have no religious value to it except that he (Benzoni) was upset with what his fellow “Christian brothers” were doing and acting towards the Indians and to the slaves. The book went into detail about how he had lived in the “new world” and the things that he saw. He goes into detail in the book about watching the Spaniards and how they would treat verbally and physically the Indians. He has pictures in the book of what the Indians would do on an everyday basis. He had put in images of Indians being enslaved by the white people and doing the brunt of work. He talked about how he would watch Indians and slaves walk into the woods at night to kill themselves because their life was so bad. He also talked about how Indian women would kill themselves and their babies so they wouldn’t have to endure the tormenting treatment from the Whites and Spaniards. This was a very controversial chunk of the book.

                The book was really received with mixed feelings, the Spaniards hated the book and that was due to majority of the things said about them were negative. The Spaniards hated the book so much that they never printed it in their language. At first no one really read the book due to the fact it was only printed in one language but as the book got translated into French in 1579 and then in English in 1857 more people got the chance to read it. Some people thought that Benzoni had “exaggerated the truth” (Library of Congress) and didn’t see the book as very truthful.

                The difference in feelings between then and now could be the same or they could be different I am not to sure. The reasoning for me not being to sure is due to the fact there are not a lot (if any) comments about this book online. I think mostly is cause we are never taught about this in school and I think its due to cause well we were those people who were the ones who treated the Indians so badly and we would be giving ourselves a bad name. We also don’t want to discriminate although I really don’t see how we could be but I’m sure someone who is of Indian descent would be upset we are talking about what took place in the history of this country. Another big possibility could be that Benzoni wasn’t the most educated person in the world and his grammatical skills were lacking a lot, so if we were to read the book it would probably need to be rewritten for us to understand, and with the time eras being so different it would be next to impossible to fully figure out and understand what he was trying to say or mean.

                Things in this time era were different than how we could do things in modern day and ways of doing something to get your point across took creativity. Benzoni used some creativity by stepping outside of the box and writing a book to portray his message, and to get a change. He knew that going around and talking to people of power to get them to hear him and his complaints about the “New World” would next to impossible due to he was not from money or family statue so instead he chose to take a different approach. The best part of that approach was he dedicated it to the pope since he was the one who pretty much had the most power and could do something, and in the long run it paid off things changed.

                In the next couple of generation need to look over and learn what he did, because there are a lot of lesions they could learn. One thing that stands out in bold is that your actions can speak louder than your words. In this direct aspect he could have told people what he saw and didn’t like or he could have done what he did and write them down in a book and spread his feelings on things and allow people to know what was really going on in the new world. With this book it also shows that even the smallest person can make the biggest impact if you just take the right ways to get your voice heard.

                Benzoni also shows that we need to be bold every now and then, he took a chance and stepped outside the box and it succeeded he got what he thought should be down. If he would have never dedicated the book to Pope Prius the 4<sup>th</sup> then things would not have changed or changed that quickly. He showed that the mistreatment of others that were different in race was wrong.

In overall this book “History of the New World” by Girolamo Benzoni I think needs to be more talked about when we talk about the history of when we came over and how we treated the Indians. We don’t need to just focus on the negative the book can bring but we need to talk about the positive aspects such as him being bold and writing this book, wanting the fairness of everyone in the “new world”, and how your actions can speak louder.
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Bibliography </span></p>

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	<li>“The Humanistic Tradition Vol 2” Fiero, 6<sup>th</sup> edition Page B3.116, 18 September 2011  <a href="http://connect.mcgraw-hill.com/connect/hmEBook.do?setTab=sectionTabs">http://connect.mcgraw-hill.com/connect/hmEBook.do?setTab=sectionTabs</a></li>
	<li> “History of the New World” by Girolamo Benzoni [microform]. 18 September, 2011 <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_32516#page/n11/mode/2up">http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_32516#page/n11/mode/2up</a></li>
	<li> Library of Congress, Exploring the Early Americas. 18 September, 2011 <a href="http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/EarlyAmericas/ExplorationsandEncounters/ColumbusandtheTaino/ExhibitObjects/GirolamoBenzoni.aspx">http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/EarlyAmericas/ExplorationsandEncounters/ColumbusandtheTaino/ExhibitObjects/GirolamoBenzoni.aspx</a></li>
	<li>Bandelier, Adolph Francis. "Girolamo Benzoni." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 18 Sept. 2011 &lt;http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02484c.htm&gt;.</li>
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