[416] Joan. Pici Mirandulæ in Astrologiam, Lib. V, cap. xii.
[417] Il Principe, cap. xxi.
[418] Arnald. Albertinus de Hæreticis, col. lix.
[419] Censura et Confutatio Libri Talmud (Boletin, XXIII, 371-4).
The Jews distinguished between unwilling converts, whom they termed Anusim and voluntary converts, or Meschudanim; the former they pitied and helped, the latter they abhorred. The Judaizing Christians were also sometimes called Alboraycos, from alborak (the lightning), the marvellous horse brought to Mahomet by the angel Gabriel, which was neither a horse nor a mule nor male nor female (Ibid. p. 379). A still more abusive popular appellation was Marrano, which means both hog and accursed. For the controverted derivation of the word see Graetz, Geschichte der Juden, VIII, 76 (Ed. 1890), who also (p. 284) admits the attachment of many of the Conversos to the old religion.
[420] C. Dertusan. ann. 1429, c. ix (Aguirre, V, 337).
[421] Ripoll Bullar. Ord. FF. Prædic. III, 347.
[422] C. Basiliens. Sess. XIX, c. vi (Harduin. VIII, 1193).
[423] Raynald. Annal. ann. 1451, n. 6.
[424] Fortalicium Fidei, Prolog. (Ed. 1494, fol. iia). The date of the Fortalicium is commonly assigned to 1459, the year which it bears upon its rubric, but on fol. lxxviib the author speaks of 1460 years having elapsed since the birth of Christ and, as this is at nearly the first third of the book, it may not have been completed for a year or two later.