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- ↑ Reyre, Dominique, "Escenificación del deicidio en los autos sacramentales de Calderón" (footnote 38), available here
- ↑ “Asientos y comercio internacional”, in Caro Baroja, J., Inquisición, brujería y criptojudaísmo, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg – Círculo de lectores, pp. 53-54, 1996. Quoted in Mercedes Abad Merino, “Aquí hay necessidad de persona capaz en muchas lenguas": El oficio de intérprete en las últias fronteras de Castilla", available here.
- ↑ Haliczer, Stephen, Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1990, p. 242.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gotthard Deutsch and A. Rhine (1901–1906). "Cansino, Jacob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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