03551nam 2200793 450 991082915290332120230501055320.01-4426-9801-210.3138/9781442698017(CKB)2670000000181520(OCoLC)785803066(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541267(SSID)ssj0000656777(PQKBManifestationID)11446770(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656777(PQKBWorkID)10636034(PQKB)11219460(CEL)438666(CaBNVSL)slc00228455(DE-B1597)479150(OCoLC)987941888(DE-B1597)9781442698017(Au-PeEL)EBL4672964(CaPaEBR)ebr11258614(OCoLC)958572203(MiAaPQ)EBC4672964(MiAaPQ)EBC3279087(dli)HEB33935.0001.001(MiU)MIU01200000000000000000208(OCoLC)1298518486(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105803(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 StudiesPrinted in Canada.Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks.1-4426-4383-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the Blanis letters -- A note to readers -- The Blanis letters : a critical edition."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."--Pub. desc.Toronto Italian studies.JewsItalyFlorenceCorrespondenceLibrariansItalyFlorenceCorrespondenceFlorence (Italy)History17th centuryPersonal correspondence.History.Electronic books. JewsLibrarians945.070928,2ssgnBlanis Benedetto1580-1647,1630876Goldberg Edward L.1948-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829152903321A Jew at the Medici Court3969403UNINA