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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]

This paper concerns a passage in a lost work by Diego de Valera in defence of conversos, dedicated to Lope de Barrientos, bishop of Cuenca, and against a friar who preached in that town, where the author was born and lived at that moment (1458). We analyse both the specific circumstances that led to the composition of the text, which are linked with Mosen Diego's biography and the local political situation, and its ideological and literary aspects, especially its relation to the rest of Valera's works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]