During its more than 300 years in existence, the Spanish Inquisition tried tens of thousands of people suspected of committing offenses against the Catholic faith and the Spanish crown. This revealing compendium gathers the confessions of six of these individuals, among them a politically incendiary prophet, a self-proclaimed hermaphrodite accused of violating the marriage sacrament for having married a woman, and a female convert to Catholicism who nonetheless served as a rabbi in the New World. These unprecedented and involuntary autobiographies combine with the historical narrative to shed light on both the personal lives of the persecuted as well as the cultural, social, and political realities of Spain’s Golden Age.
 Durante sus más de 300 años de existencia, la Inquisición Española juzgó a millares de personas sospechadas de cometer ofensas contra la fe católica y la monarquÃa. Este compendio revelador reúne las confesiones de seis de estos individuos, entre ellos un profeta polÃticamente incendiario, un autoproclamado hermafrodita acusado de violar el sacramento del matrimonio por haberse casado con una mujer y una conversa a la fe católica que aún asà sirvió de rabÃen el Nuevo Mundo. Estas autobiografÃas sin precedentes e involuntarias combinan con la narrativa histórica para arrojar luz sobre las vidas personales de los perseguidos asà como las realidades culturales, sociales y polÃticas del Siglo de Oro español.