NÚÑEZ, ÁLVARO
Practitioner Bio
Born c. 1558 in Braganza, Portugal. Doctor of medicine. Graduated in 1582 from Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. Immigrated c. 1583 to Spanish viceroyalties. Arrested in 1601. Brought from La Plata to secret cells in Lima. Trial in Lima in 1605. Accused of being a Judio and observer of Mosaic laws. Reconciled 13 March 1605 in the Auto de fe.
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Bibliography (secondary sources relating to this practitioner)
Bodian, Miriam. Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Böhm, Günter. Historia de Los Judios En Chile, Periodo Colonial: El Bachiller Francisco Maldonado de Silva, 1592-1639. Vol. 1. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello, 1984.
Escobar Quevedo, Ricardo. Inquisición y Judaizantes En America Española (Siglos XVI-XVII). Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2008.
Friedlander, Gunter. Los Héroes Olvidados. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Nascimento, 1966.
García de Proodian, Lucia. Los Judios En América: Sus Actividades En Los Virreinatos de Nueva Castilla y Nueva Granada, S. XVII. Madrid: Instituto Arias Montano, 1966.
Liebman, Seymour B. The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World: Summaries of Procesos, 1500-1810. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1975.
Marcos de Díos, Ángel. “Índice de Portugueses en la Universidad de Salamanca (1580-1640).” Brigantia X, no. 4 (1990): 163–188.
Note: Cited in vol. 1