The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.Llorente, Juan Antonio
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The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.
Llorente, Juan Antonio
Inquisition -- Spain
In 1519, Torralba returned to Spain, accompanied by Don Diego de Zuñiga,
a relation of the Duke de Bejar, and brother to Don Antonio, grand prior
of Castile, who was his intimate friend. At Barcelonetta, near Turin,
while they were walking with the secretary Acebedo (who had been marshal
of the camp in Italy and Savoy), Acebedo and Zuñiga thought they saw
something pass by Torralba which they could not define; he informed them
that it was his angel _Zequiel_, who had approached to speak to him.
Zuñiga wished much to see him, but _Zequiel_ would not appear.
At Barcelona, Torralba saw, in the house of the Canon Juan Garcia, a
book on chiromancy, and in some notes a process for winning money at
play. Zuñiga wished to learn it, and Torralba copied the characters, and
told his friend to write them himself on paper with the blood of a bat,
and keep them about his person while he played.
Being at Valladolid in 1520, Torralba told Don Diego that he would
return to Rome, because he had the means of getting there in a short
time, by being mounted on a stick and guided through the air by a cloud
of fire. Torralba really went to that city, where Cardinal Volterra and
the grand prior requested him to give up his _familiar spirit_ to them.
Torralba proposed it to _Zequiel_, and even entreated him to consent,
but without success.
In 1525 the angel told him that he would do well if he returned to
Spain, because he would obtain the place of physician to the infanta
Eleonora, queen dowager of Portugal, and afterwards married to Francis
I., King of France. The doctor communicated this affair to the Duke de
Bejar, and to Don Stephen-Manuel Merino, Archbishop of Bari; they
solicited and obtained for him the place which he aspired to.
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