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A Jew at the Medici Court
Author | : Benedetto Blanis,Edward L. Goldberg |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442643833 |
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Edward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Over the course of six years, Benedetto Blanis — a scholar and entrepreneur in the Florentine Ghetto — wrote nearly 200 letters to his princely patron Don Giovanni dei Medici. For the first time, these letters are available in a definitive critical edition — with full transcriptions in the original Italian, English language summaries, and explanatory notes. This book is a companion volume to Jews and Magic in Medici Florence, in which Goldberg narrates Blanis's startling rise and fall. Readers can now take a step closer and hear Blanis's compelling story in his own words — tracing his fraught relations with Jews and Christians, his desperate (and often illegal) business schemes, his disastrous strategies for advancement at the Medici Court, and his pursuit of arcane knowledge, including astrology, alchemy, and Kabbalah.
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence
Author | : Edward L. Goldberg |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442642256 |
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In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanisa businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynastysought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked. Edward Goldberg reveals the dramas of daily life behind the scenes in the Pitti Palace and in the narrow byways of the Florentine Ghetto, using thousands of new documents from the Medici Granducal Archive. He shows that truthespecially historical truthcan be stranger than fiction, when viewed through the eyes of the people most immediately involved.
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence
Author | : Stefanie Beth Siegmund |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804750785 |
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This book explores the decision of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici to create a ghetto in Florence, and explains how a Jewish community developed out of that forced population transfer.
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence
Author | : Edward L. Goldberg |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2011-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442660137 |
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In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynasty—sought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked. Edward Goldberg reveals the dramas of daily life behind the scenes in the Pitti Palace and in the narrow byways of the Florentine Ghetto, using thousands of new documents from the Medici Granducal Archive. He shows that truth—especially historical truth—can be stranger than fiction, when viewed through the eyes of the people most immediately involved.
The Jews and the Reformation
Author | : Kenneth Austin |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300187021 |
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Judaism has always been of great significance to Christianity but this relationship has also been marked by complexity and ambivalence. The emergence of new Protestant confessions in the Reformation had significant consequences for how Jews were viewed and treated. In this wide-ranging account, Kenneth Austin examines Christian attitudes toward Jews, the Hebrew language, and Jewish learning, arguing that they have much to tell us about the Reformation and its priorities—and have important implications for how we think about religious pluralism today.
Where to from Here
Author | : Andre Slade,Katarina KrižÁni |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781499090109 |
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ABSOLUTE TRUTH Absolute waarheid Absolútna pravda Ipsum verum sit A? ? A? ? Absoluuttinen totuus Vérité absolue The Book of Revelation 10
Galileo s Telescope
Author | : Massimo Bucciantini,Michele Camerota,Franco Giudice |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674736917 |
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Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells how this ingenious device evolved into a precision instrument that would transcend the limits of human vision and transform humanity’s view of its place in the cosmos.
The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy
Author | : Wiley Feinstein |
Publsiher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0838639887 |
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This book studies the persecution of Italian Jews during the Fascist period in relation to the Italian cultural tradition. It shows that Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws and Italian support for Hitler's war on the Jews stem directly from beliefs deeply embedded in Italian culture. After studying anti-Judaic characterizations in the Christian tradition and representations of Jews by Dante and other Medieval and Renaissance authors, the book shows how the anti-Semitic tradition became reinvigorated in the nineteenth century. cultural figures in the period between 1900 and 1940: the writer Giovanni Papini, the Catholic educational leader Agostino Gemelli, and the artist and critic Ardengo Soffici. The book then examines Mussolini's specific anti-Semitic policies and argues that the Italian cultural system contributed to generating the evil that led to the Holocaust. Wiley Feinstein is Associate Professor of Italian at Loyola University Chicago.