Antonio Enríquez Gómez

Antonio Enríquez Gómez was born in Cuenca, Castile, and in his midthirties he settled in France. His father was a New Christian. Gómez published books of Spanish poetry and prose in Rouen, Bordeaux, and Paris. In addition to his published works, he left two long poems, in which he expressed explicit identification with Judaism. He returned to Spain in 1649, apparently because of the commercial business in which he was involved, living there under the name Fernando de Zárate. In 1660, the Inquisition sentenced him in absentia and burnt him in effigy in Seville. Shortly afterward, Gómez himself was arrested and died in an Inquisition prison while awaiting his verdict.