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Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

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The Inquisition had no function to punish those born and bred in non-Christian, Protestant and Muslim creeds. It only feared and combated their expansionism in the Roman Catholic world.

How? By providing the Inquisitors’ Palace with a hefty fine – a practice that the Roman Inquisition deplored and ordered Malta to stop.

Their tribunal became a part of a wider Catholic Inquisition, under the Pope. It had variants in the Roman Inquisition and the Portuguese Inquisition.