The Dreamer of the Calle De San Salvador: Visions of Sedition and Sacrilege in 16th Century Spain - Couverture souple

From the author of The Deprat Affair, history with a difference, presenting the dreams of a woman who lived at the time of the Spanish Inquisition.

Spell-binding, poetic and apocalyptic, the dreams of Lucrecia de Léon lay in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition for more than 400 years. Lucrecia was a nineteen-year-old Madrilena in 1587 when her dreams began to be recorded by a disaffected group of clerics. Over the next three years they transcribed her dreams which they considered to be messages from God. The dreams warned of the defeat of the Armada, of the death of King Philip II, of the fall of Spain and of a new beginning under a new king. As some of her prophecies came true and as the Spanish court grew more discontented, she fell afoul of the authorities and was arrested by the Holy Order.

Roger Osborne is the author of The Floating Egg and The Deprat Affair. He also wrote a radio play based on The Dreamer of the Calle de San Salvador.