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Both Ignatius Sancho and Vicente Lusitano, despite their undeniable success and respect at their respective courts were nearly forgotten to time due to general systemic AntiBlackness but in the past couple of decades they have both experienced a resurgence of interest in their work🎉
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"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."
The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66908/66908-h/66908-h.htm#LETTER_LXVII_TO_MR_M_mdashSancho corresponded with #LaurenceSterne from 1766. The publication of the letters after Sterne's death made Sancho famous.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-letters-of-the-late-ignatius-sancho-an-african-1782