A luiseño dictionary / compiled by William Bright

• Record Nr.: UNINA990004658860403321
• Autore: Bright, William <1928- >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California press, 1968
• Descrizione fisica: 87 p. ; 26 cm
• Collana: University of California publications in linguistics ; 51
• Disciplina: 497.4
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: 497.4 BRI 1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Letters

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788420503321
• Autore: Abravanel Isaac <1437-1508.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, Inc, c2007
• ISBN: 3-11-089666-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Collana: Studia Judaica ; ; Bd. 40
• Classificazione: BD 4256
• Altri autori (Persone): Cohen SkalliCedric
• Disciplina: 296.3092
• Soggetti: Rabbis; Jewish statesmen - Portugal; Jewish statesmen - Spain; Jewish statesmen - Italy; Jewish philosophers
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Letters. ; Edition and Translation -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous "portraits" that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel's assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian - in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.