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The quotation on page vi is taken from Marcelin Defourneaux, Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age, translated by Newton Branch (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1970) p 225.
Joaquin Hazanus y La Rua, Vazquez de Leca, 1573-1649 (Seville: Sevilla Imprenta y Libreria de Sobrinos de Izquierdo, 1918) pp 254-6. (NB We know that some of the Seville orders were bringing up Morisco children who were left behind when their families went to Africa. Spanish documents cited in the above Seville publication, confirm that the children were distributed into the care of clergy and pious laymen.)
Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
Ruth Pike, Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1972) p 377. (NB Historical records indicate that in Seville three hundred children under seven were left behind by their families at the time of the great exodus which began in Seville in 1610.)
Velázquez in Seville, edited by David Davies and Enriqueta Harris (Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1996). (NB The tower scene in the opening chapter of my novel was inspired by a historically documented incident. According to Vicente Canal, the inquisition notary Daza y Valdes took a group of male friends up the Giralda tower to test the range of a visorio (telescope). Daza, a close friend of Francisco Pacheco’s, was familiar with Galileo’s works. In 1613 Daza published The Art and Use of Telescopes, a text in which, according to Vicente Canal, Daza recounts the ascent of the Giralda episode. See Vicente Lleo Canal, ‘The Cultural Elite of Velázquez’s Seville’, in Velázquez in Seville referenced above, pp 26-27.)