Position of the Jews of Italy--The Jewish Bankers--Yechiel of Pisa--His Relations with Don Isaac Abrabanel--Jewish Physicians, Guglielmo di Portaleone--Revival of Learning among Italian Jews--Messer Leon and Elias del Medigo-- Pico di Mirandola, the Disciple of Medigo--Predilection of Christians for the Kabbala--Jochanan Aleman--Religious Views of Del Medigo--German Rabbis immigrate into Italy-- Joseph Kolon, his Character and his Feud with Messer Leon --Judah Menz, an Antagonist of Del Medigo--Bernardinus of Feltre--Jews banished from Trent on a False Charge of Child-Murder--The Doge of Venice and Pope Sixtus IV befriend the Jews--Sufferings of the Jews of Ratisbon--Israel Bruna --Synod at Nuremberg--Emperor Frederick III _page 285._ 1474-1492 C.E. CHAPTER X. THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN. Jewish Blood in the Veins of the Spanish Nobility--The Marranos cling to Judaism and manifest Unconquerable Antipathy to Christianity--Ferdinand and Isabella--The Dominicans, Alfonso de Ojeda, Diego de Merlo, and Pedro de Solis--The Catechism of the Marranos--A Polemical Work against the Catholic Church and Despotism gives a Powerful Impulse to the Inquisition--The Tribunal is established in 1480--Miguel Morillo and Juan de San Martin are the first Inquisitors-- The Inquisition in Seville--The "Edict of Grace"--The Procession and the Auto-da-fé--The Numbers of the Accused and Condemned--Pope Sixtus IV and his Vacillating Policy with Regard to the Inquisition--The Inquisition under the first Inquisitor General, Thomas de Torquemada; its Constitutions --The Marranos of Aragon--They are charged with the Death of the Inquisitor Arbues--Persecutions and Victims-- Proceedings against two Bishops Favorable to the Jews, De Avila and De Aranda _page 308._ 1474-1483 C.E. CHAPTER XI. EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN. Friendship of Marranos and Jews--Torquemada demands of the Rabbis of Toledo the Denunciation of Marranos--Judah Ibn-Verga--Jewish Courtiers under Ferdinand and Isabella --Isaac Abrabanel: his History and Writings--The Jews of Portugal under Alfonso V--The Ibn-Yachya Brothers-- Abrabanel's Flight from Portugal to Spain--The Jews of Granada: Isaac Hamon--Edict of Banishment promulgated by Ferdinand and Isabella--Its Consequences--Departure from Spain--Number of the Exiles--Decline in the Prosperity of Spain after the Banishment of the Jews--Transformation of Synagogues and Schools into Churches and Monasteries-- The Inquisition and the Marranos--Deza, the Successor of Torquemada _page 334._ 1483-1492 C.E. CHAPTER XII. EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM NAVARRE AND PORTUGAL.