''La Gesta del Marrano'' (published in English as ''Against the Inquisition'') is a novel written by renowned prize-winning Argentine author

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. This novel tells the story of Francisco Maldonado da Silva, a physician born in San Miguel de Tucumán,

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, who discovered his

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origin and decided to assume fully his Jewishness and stop hiding as a Christian (''

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''). Maldonado was imprisoned by the Holy Inquisition, tried, and condemned for

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. The book was released in English by Amazon Publishing in 2018 under the title ''Against the Inquisition''.

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Spanish-language novels 1991 Argentine novels {{Argentina-stub