Biografies invisibles / Invisible Biographies

We use the case of Hernando – or Fernando – Cabrera, carceller of the secret prisons of the court of the Inquisition of Valencia between the years 1515 and 1541, to illustrate both the institutional language of the time and the current historiography on the Inquisition and its secret prisons, innovative institutions in their time and considered modern, in relation to “medieval” prisons, take us at the deception: at the reality, accessible thanks to the internal documentation of the Santo Oficio