03252nam 2200685 450 991046178960332120200520144314.01-4426-9801-210.3138/9781442698017(CKB)2670000000181520(OCoLC)785803066(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541267(SSID)ssj0000656777(PQKBManifestationID)11446770(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656777(PQKBWorkID)10636034(PQKB)11219460(CEL)438666(CaBNVSL)slc00228455(MiAaPQ)EBC3279087(MiAaPQ)EBC4672964(DE-B1597)479150(OCoLC)987941888(DE-B1597)9781442698017(Au-PeEL)EBL4672964(CaPaEBR)ebr11258614(OCoLC)958572203(EXLCZ)99267000000018152020160916h20112011 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrA Jew at the Medici Court the letters of Benedetto Blanis, Hebreo (1615-1621) /Edward GoldbergToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (351 p.)Toronto Italian Studies1-4426-4383-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction: The Blanis Letters --A Note to Readers --The Blanis Letters, 1615-1621 --Selected Bibliography --Index of Names --Index of Places --Index of TopicsEdward 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.Toronto Italian studies.JewsItalyFlorenceCorrespondenceLibrariansItalyFlorenceCorrespondenceFlorence (Italy)History17th centuryElectronic books.JewsLibrarians945.07092Blanis Benedetto1580-1647,976357Goldberg Edward L.1948-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461789603321A Jew at the Medici Court2224218UNINA