El espejo de las almas simples

On June 1, 1310, in Paris, a woman about whom little is known—Marguerite Porete, a Beguine from the Hainaut region—perished at the stake at the hands of the Inquisition; she had written a book, *The Mirror of Simple Souls*, which led to her condemnation. Following her death, the book circulated so widely that, during the final centuries of the Middle Ages, it transcended geographical and linguistic boundaries like few other texts of its time, being translated from French (or the likely original Picard) into Latin, English, and Italian.