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...Torquemada, Howard Fast has reached back 500 years to compose a bitter fictional parable about one of the most detested figures in the history of man or of man's religion-the Dominican Friar Thomas de Torquemada, Prior of Segovia and Grand Inquisitor of Spain. Or so it seems. A parable illuminates a complexity with a single truth. Fast's is a terrible, simple tale which raises more complex questions than it provides simple answers...
Friend Betrayed. The relations between Thomas and Alvero are poisoned, for the King appoints Thomas the Grand Inquisitor of all Spain. Absolute power corrupts him absolutely. He has caused heretics to be burned before; now he accepts the King's commission as a mandate for an anti-Semitic holocaust. Thomas' hatred is not for Jews (who, he thinks, are damned anyway) but for the marrano, the converted Jew who might secretly practice Jewish rites. Fatally, Don Alvero is such a one, or could be mistaken for one by malice and fanaticism. And so, Torquemada puts his friend...
...something more than an adult horror comic; he made his book a classic defense against the ogres of absolutism who think that their political faith gives them power over the minds and bodies of other men. Koestler brought a better mind to the subject; he began by renouncing the inquisitor within himself. Fast's book is no more than a tua culpa. In the person of Alvero, he seems to be trying to recover in the 15th century the innocence he lost in the 20th...
...world, including a warm message from the Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini, a longtime friend. But from the Vatican came not a word. Instead, Maccari returned for a cleanup. Result: the trinket vendors drifted away, and the Spiritual Daughters were shorn of their powers. There were cries of "inquisitor," but Maccari had his way. Padre Pio was put under guard, and he soon found himself virtual prisoner in his own convent; his mail was opened and read; he was forbidden to celebrate Easter Mass in 1961 and to perform weddings or baptisms...
...survivors proves to be insane. The other, Mr. Shin, insists at first that he was separated from the others. If there is a reason for his survival, he tells his inquisitor, it is "divine intervention." But Mr. Shin, it soon becomes apparent, is a tormented man. He intimates that he knows how the martyred ministers died-"like dogs, whimpering, whining, wailing," begging for mercy, denouncing their God and one another...