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Fray Hernando de Talavera is a historical figure highly regarded as a symbol of an age. He was confessor of Queen Isabella I of Castile and first archbishop of Granada, he was also "cristiano nuevo" (a Christian of Jewish or Muslim ancestry) and as such was tried by the Inquisition. This monk of the Order of St. Jerome was involved in the social and religious renaissance that took place in Spain during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. He experienced in his life the contradictions of this most brilliant period of Spanish history. This paper analyses these contradictions as a "moral parable". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]