In the year 1587, Seville was the most important city in the world. With a hundred and fifty thousand hungry mouths to feed and the plague, which had already decimated thousands of lives, this was the perfect breeding ground for the picaresque to flourish. The underworld, wheeling and dealing, corruption, beggars and prostitutes, noblemen and merchants, swordsmen and thieves—all lived behind the city's famous walls. In those days, a party...
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