La fee triunfante, the Jesuit Francisco Garau's chronicle of the 1691 autos-da-fé, was printed by order of the city. Thousands of copies, listing the name, surname, age and trade of every person condemned.
In 1755 Matías Fortuny, a Palma bookseller, asked permission to reprint it. According to Inquisition records, not a single copy of the first edition could be found. The explanation given was that the descendants of those punished had bought them up, one by one, to make them disappear.
The reprint came out that same year. It was a book full of names: putting it back into circulation meant pointing at the same families again, sixty-four years later.
Few images capture the following centuries better: some people trying to erase a list, and others determined that it should never be forgotten.
