Yael Guiladi was born in New Zealand and in 1959 moved to Jerusalem, the city where he practiced journalism and where he currently resides. He has dedicated a large part of his research work to the history of the Jewish people, and the fruit of this work is the trilogy about the coexistence of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, formed by Orovida (1996), Los cipreses de Córdoba ( 1997) and La copista del rey Alfonso (1999), A splendid fresco of an unrepeatable time, published with extraordinary success in this same collection, where the splendid novel Conspiración en Venecia (2005) and El amor de Spinoza (2007) also appeared. .