William B. Taylor is Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. His books on Latin American history include Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain, as well as Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages and Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.

"An extremely rewarding book. . . . Above all, the book is characterized by Taylor’s insightful historical analysis, which brings the past to life but always treats its own terms and in all of its complexity."

• List of MapsPrefaceIntroductionStrangers in the Land: Prosperity, Poverty, Expansion, and Displacement in Spain and New Spain A World of Appearances and SuspicionTwo ImpostorsThe Mexican Inquisition after 17501 Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, Escape ArtistA Life on His Own and on the Move: "I left determined to make my way in life . . . for good or ill" Aguayo Presents Himself: Reading His Actions and Words: ". . . leaving nothing behind but my shadow"Inquisitors Take the Measure of Joseph Aguayo: "An escaped criminal and backslider"Conclusion: "What I tell you is either truth or lies"2 Juan Atondo's Vagrant HeartAspirations and TransgressionsAtondo Presents Himself to the InquisitionThe Inquisitors and Others Appraise Juan AtondoConclusion: His Propensión Religiosa3 Protean Pícaros Early Literary Pícaros: "A vagabond is a newcomer in a heap of trouble"Mexican Literary Pícaros?Conclusion4 Aguayo and Atondo, Pícaros After All?Aguayo: "The pícaro both incorporates and transcends the wanderer, the jester, and the have-not."Atondo: "You are the stranger who gets stranger by the hour"ConclusionConclusionBeyond PícarosFugitive FreedomNotesBibliographyIndex

William B. Taylor is Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. His books on Latin American history include Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain, as well as Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages and Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.

"An extremely rewarding book. . . . Above all, the book is characterized by Taylor’s insightful historical analysis, which brings the past to life but always treats its own terms and in all of its complexity."

• List of MapsPrefaceIntroductionStrangers in the Land: Prosperity, Poverty, Expansion, and Displacement in Spain and New Spain A World of Appearances and SuspicionTwo ImpostorsThe Mexican Inquisition after 17501 Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, Escape ArtistA Life on His Own and on the Move: "I left determined to make my way in life . . . for good or ill" Aguayo Presents Himself: Reading His Actions and Words: ". . . leaving nothing behind but my shadow"Inquisitors Take the Measure of Joseph Aguayo: "An escaped criminal and backslider"Conclusion: "What I tell you is either truth or lies"2 Juan Atondo's Vagrant HeartAspirations and TransgressionsAtondo Presents Himself to the InquisitionThe Inquisitors and Others Appraise Juan AtondoConclusion: His Propensión Religiosa3 Protean Pícaros Early Literary Pícaros: "A vagabond is a newcomer in a heap of trouble"Mexican Literary Pícaros?Conclusion4 Aguayo and Atondo, Pícaros After All?Aguayo: "The pícaro both incorporates and transcends the wanderer, the jester, and the have-not."Atondo: "You are the stranger who gets stranger by the hour"ConclusionConclusionBeyond PícarosFugitive FreedomNotesBibliographyIndex

William B. Taylor is Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. His books on Latin American history include Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain, as well as Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages and Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.

"An extremely rewarding book. . . . Above all, the book is characterized by Taylor’s insightful historical analysis, which brings the past to life but always treats its own terms and in all of its complexity."

• List of MapsPrefaceIntroductionStrangers in the Land: Prosperity, Poverty, Expansion, and Displacement in Spain and New Spain A World of Appearances and SuspicionTwo ImpostorsThe Mexican Inquisition after 17501 Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, Escape ArtistA Life on His Own and on the Move: "I left determined to make my way in life . . . for good or ill" Aguayo Presents Himself: Reading His Actions and Words: ". . . leaving nothing behind but my shadow"Inquisitors Take the Measure of Joseph Aguayo: "An escaped criminal and backslider"Conclusion: "What I tell you is either truth or lies"2 Juan Atondo's Vagrant HeartAspirations and TransgressionsAtondo Presents Himself to the InquisitionThe Inquisitors and Others Appraise Juan AtondoConclusion: His Propensión Religiosa3 Protean Pícaros Early Literary Pícaros: "A vagabond is a newcomer in a heap of trouble"Mexican Literary Pícaros?Conclusion4 Aguayo and Atondo, Pícaros After All?Aguayo: "The pícaro both incorporates and transcends the wanderer, the jester, and the have-not."Atondo: "You are the stranger who gets stranger by the hour"ConclusionConclusionBeyond PícarosFugitive FreedomNotesBibliographyIndex