3. What parallels do you see between today’s political events and those of fifteenth-century Spain? Is the “Inquisition” (i.e., persecutory institutions and attitudes) alive and well in the twenty-first century?
4. To what extent do you think Jeanne Kalogridis took artistic liberties with this work? What does it take for a novelist to bring a “real” historical period to life?
5. Discuss the nature of fact versus fiction in The Inquisitor’s Wife. You may wish to take this opportunity to compare it with other historical novels you’ve read (as a group or on your own).
6. Why do modern readers enjoy novels about the past? How and when can a powerful piece of fiction be a history lesson in itself?
7. We are taught, as young readers, that every story has a “moral.” Is there a moral to The Inquisitor’s Wife? What can we learn about our world—and ourselves—from Marisol’s story?
ALSO BY JEANNE KALOGRIDIS
The Borgia Bride
I, Mona Lisa
The Devil’s Queen
The Scarlet Contessa
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeanne Kalogridis lives in California, where she shares a house with an adorably wiggly black Lab named Django. She is the author of the critically acclaimed The Borgia Bride and numerous other dark fantasy and historical novels.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE INQUISITOR’S WIFE. Copyright © 2013 by Jeanne Kalogridis. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.stmartins.com
Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio
Cover photograph by Larry Rostant
ISBN 978-0-312-67546-2 (trade paperback)
ISBN 978-1-250-04092-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-03151-8 (e-book)
First Edition: May 2013
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