The collaborative space will help create "an ecosystem of high-level, experienced entrepreneurs" in Chicago, says Mr. Salcedo.

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Delibes' account of the Salcedo's vertical integration of the rabbit-coat industry--How many writers can boast of sustaining interest in a subject like that?

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Meet Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, Alice Brooks of Roominate, Liz Salcedo of Everpurse and Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox in conversation with Lora Kolodny of Wall Street Journal.

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Home to big businesses and major hotels that may make you feel like you're in Singapore, if you're there on a Saturday make sure you wander through Salcedo Market .

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Salcedo, born to wealth though not to the nobility, survives a loveless father, a mad wife and a liaison with his former wet nurse to develop into an astute and innovative businessman.

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Visitors to Valladolid, located north of Madrid, can follow a route through the city that is dedicated to sites associated with Cipriano Salcedo, a 16th-century merchant who was swept up in the fires of the Inquisition.

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Salcedo's entry into heresy and its rarefied society--the rich had access to books and travel to the Protestant north--hinges on what most would consider obscure doctrinal points, such as whether one is saved by faith alone or by grace and good works.

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As they move among the remnants of Valladolid's former royal splendor, tourists can consider how Spain might have developed had the Counter-Reformation not been so successful in suppressing the nascent Protestant heresy--or what might have happened had there been more men like Salcedo.

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The success of The Heretic in Spain may have less to do with Salcedo's character than it does with its recreation of the vanished Protestant milieu of the period, which was quickly suppressed and is harder to find than Spain's Moorish and Jewish past.

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