Los Arias Dávila De Segovia
Resumen del Libro
In this remarkable, lucid, and thorough investigation, Gitlitz portrays a prominent Christian/Jewish family of late fifteenth-century Spain, a time in which systematic persecution of Jewish converts to Christianity led to the founding of the Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews. The more than 30,000 Marranos or conversos eventually burned at the stake by the Inquisition included members of the Arias clan. Particularly significant is the portrait that emerges in the book of the family patriarch, Diego Arias Davila, a strong-minded, newly rich, kings minister of finance, who had a foot in both worlds. The book details the complex network of the Arias clans family and friends, many of whom despite the increasing pressure to conform exclusively to Christian practices labored to sustain a rich Jewish religious life. TEXT IN SPANISH
