A Jew At The Medici Court
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A Jew At The Medici Court
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Author : Benedetto Blanis
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011
A Jew At The Medici Court written by Benedetto Blanis and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
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
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Author : Edward L. Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Jews And Magic In Medici Florence written by Edward L. Goldberg and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with History categories.
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
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Author : Stefanie Beth Siegmund
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Medici State And The Ghetto Of Florence written by Stefanie Beth Siegmund and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
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.
Montalto A Jewish Physician At The Court Of Marie De Medicis And Louis Xiii By Harry Friedenwald
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Author : Harry Friedenwald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Montalto A Jewish Physician At The Court Of Marie De Medicis And Louis Xiii By Harry Friedenwald written by Harry Friedenwald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with categories.
Jews And The Medici
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The Medici Archive Project Inc. highlights Jewish history and culture in the Tuscany region of Italy during the two centuries of Medici rule (1537-1743). The project states that the Jewish people prospered when favored by the Medicis. In the 1590s, many Jewish merchants settled in Livorno, Italy, having been granted free residence and extensive self-government by Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549-1609), the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Livorno soon became an important center of commerce.
The Jew In The Art Of The Italian Renaissance
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Author : Dana E. Katz
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2008-06-04
The Jew In The Art Of The Italian Renaissance written by Dana E. Katz and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-04 with Art categories.
Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews.
Renaissance Emir
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Author : T.J. Gorton
language : en
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-30
Renaissance Emir written by T.J. Gorton and has been published by Interlink Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A groundbreaking biography of the mysterious Levantine prince Fakr ad-Din. The year is 1613: the Ottoman Empire is at its height, sprawling from Hungary to Iraq, Morocco to Yemen. One man dares to challenge it: the Prince of the mysterious Druze sect in Mount Lebanon, Fakhr ad-Din. Yielding before a mighty army sent to conquer him, he—astonishingly—takes refuge with the Medici in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. Fakhr ad-Din took along with him a diverse party of Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Levantines on their first visit to the “Lands of the Christians.” During his five-year stay in Italy, he fights to persuade Popes, Grand-Dukes and Viceroys to support a grand plan: a new Crusade to wrest the Holy Land from the Ottomans, giving Jerusalem back to Christendom and himself a crown. This groundbreaking biography of Fakhr ad-Din, Prince of the Druze, is based on the author’s vivid new translations of contemporary sources in Arabic and other languages. It brings to life one remarkable man’s beliefs and ambitions, uniquely illuminating the elusive interface between Eastern and Western culture.
A Companion To Cosimo I De Medici
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Author : Alessio Assonitis
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-01
A Companion To Cosimo I De Medici written by Alessio Assonitis and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with History categories.
Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, with special emphasis on Cosimo I's education and intellectual interests, cultural policies, political vision, institutional reforms, diplomatic relations, religious beliefs, military entrepreneurship, and dynastic concerns. Contributors: Maurizio Arfaioli, Alessio Assonitis, Nicholas Scott Baker, Sheila Barker, Stefano Calonaci, Brendan Dooley, Daniele Edigati, Sheila ffolliott, Catherine Fletcher, Andrea Gáldy, Fernando Loffredo, Piergabriele Mancuso, Jessica Maratsos, Carmen Menchini, Oscar Schiavone, Marcello Simonetta, and Henk Th. van Veen.
Galileo S Telescope
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Author : Massimo Bucciantini
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-23
Galileo S Telescope written by Massimo Bucciantini and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
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Author : Wiley Feinstein
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2003
The Civilization Of The Holocaust In Italy written by Wiley Feinstein and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
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.