Pablo de Cespedes, a seventeen-year-old native of…
February 1559 CE
Pablo de Cespedes, a seventeen-year-old native of Córdoba, trains with the painter Federigo Zuccaro in Rome from February 1559, when Cespedes is engaged in conducting certain negotiations for the Archbishop Carranza de Miranda, of Toledo, who stands charged with heresy before the Inquisition of Valladolid.
On the seventeenth of this month he addresses a letter to the prelate, informing him how his business stands at the Vatican, in which he incautiously reflects on the conduct of the Inquisitor-General Valdez, and the Holy Office—an offense which no Inquisitor-General would forgive.
This document and others are seized with the primate's papers; he is therefore denounced by the tribunal, and but for his fortunate absence, would have been imprisoned.
It is probable that Cespedes does not venture back into Spain for many years, until he had covered his sins with the protecting robes of the Church.
He is to remain in Italy for over twenty years and build a reputation as an artist.
His only surviving works from this period are the frescoes he paints in the Bonfili chapel at the Santa Trinità dei Monti church in Rome.
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