THE SECOND SON OF THE SILK MERCHANT

'The Second Son of the Silk Merchant' is a stirring chronicle, charged with lyricism and narrative force, of the decadence of Granad a, a kingdom that had no Christian Middle Ages and that in slightly over ninety years evolved from being the last Islamic bastion in Europe to the iron-clad intoleranceof the Inquisition. The protagonist, Alonso de Granada Lomellino, embodies the city's tragedy, l iving out with deep fervor the maneuvers of some enlightened Moriscos with respect to the <(><<)><(><<)>Leaden Book>> of Sacromonte, followed...[Llegir més]