Among the friends he acquired at Rome, was a monk of St. Dominic, called Brother Peter. This man told him one day that he had in his service one of the good angels, whose name was _Zequiel_, so powerful in the knowledge of the future, that no other could equal him; but that he abhorred the practice of obliging men to make a compact with him; that he was always free, and only served the person who placed confidence in him through friendship, and that he allowed him to reveal the secrets he communicated, but that any constraint employed to force him to answer questions made him for ever abandon the society of the man to whom he had attached himself. Brother Peter asked him if he would not like to have _Zequiel_ for his friend, adding that he could obtain that favour on account of the friendship which subsisted between them; Torralba expressed the greatest desire to become acquainted with the spirit of Brother Peter. _Zequiel_ soon appeared in the shape of a young man, fair, with flaxen hair, dressed in flesh colour, with a black surtout; he said to Torralba, _I will belong to thee as long as thou livest, and will follow thee wherever thou goest_. After this promise _Zequiel_ appeared to Torralba at the different quarters of the moon, and whenever he wished to go from one place to another, sometimes in the figure of a traveller, sometimes like a hermit. _Zequiel_ never spoke against the Christian religion, or advised him to commit any bad action; on the contrary, he reproached him when he committed a fault, and attended the church service with him: he always spoke in Latin or Italian, although he was with Torralba in Spain, France, and Turkey: he continued to visit him during his imprisonment but seldom, and did not reveal any secrets to him, and Torralba desired the spirit to leave him, because he caused agitation and prevented him from sleeping; but this did not prevent him from returning and relating things which wearied him. Torralba went to Spain in 1502. Some time after he travelled over all Italy, and settled at Rome under the protection of Cardinal Volterra; he there acquired the reputation of a good physician, and engaged the favour of several cardinals. He studied chiromancy, and acquired some knowledge of the art. _Zequiel_ revealed to Torralba the secret virtues of several plants in curing certain maladies; having made use of this information to procure money, _Zequiel_ reproached him for it, saying, that as these remedies had cost him no labour, he ought to bestow them gratuitously. Torralba having appeared sad sometimes because he was in want of money, the angel said to him, _Why are you sad for want of money?_ Some time after, Torralba found six ducats in his chamber, and the same thing was repeated several times, which made him suppose that _Zequiel_ had placed them there, although he would not acknowledge it when questioned.