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The Poetry of Secrets

✍ Scribed by Cambria Gordon

Publisher
Scholastic Inc.; Scholastic Press
Year
2021
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
City
Lisbon (Portugal), Portugal, Portugal--Lisbon, Spain--Trujillo (CΓ‘ceres), Trujillo (CΓ‘ceres, Spain
ISBN
1338634186

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

As a young woman in 1481, Trujillo, Spain, Isabel should be overjoyed that the alguacil of the city wants to marry her, especially since she and her family are conversos β€” Jews forced to convert to Catholicism β€” leaving them low in the hierarchy of the new Spanish order. Yet she longs to pursue an independent life filled with poetry and a partner of her own choosing: Diego Altamirano, a young nobleman whose family would never let him court someone with tainted blood like hers.

But Isabel's biggest secret is this: Though the Perezes claim to be New Christians, they still practice Judaism in the refuge of their own home. When the Spanish Inquisition reaches Trujillo, determined to punish such judaizers, Isabel finds herself in more danger than she ever could have imagined. Amid the threat of discovery, she and Diego will have to fight for their lives in a quest to truly be free.

A timeless love story about identity, religious...

✦ Subjects

Spain -- Trujillo (Cáceres)

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