Nobility and bourgeoisie backed both repression and literary admiration of Moriscos

Evidence

Certainly the nobility and the bourgeoisie provided some of the principal advocates and implementers of the policy of repression. It is important to note that in the literature of the sixteenth century there were these manifestations of respect and admiration for the people who were at that 29. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 952