LEADER 03252nam 2200685 450 001 9910461789603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9801-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442698017 035 $a(CKB)2670000000181520 035 $a(OCoLC)785803066 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541267 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000656777 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11446770 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656777 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10636034 035 $a(PQKB)11219460 035 $a(CEL)438666 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00228455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3279087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672964 035 $a(DE-B1597)479150 035 $a(OCoLC)987941888 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442698017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672964 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258614 035 $a(OCoLC)958572203 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000181520 100 $a20160916h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Jew at the Medici Court $ethe letters of Benedetto Blanis, Hebreo (1615-1621) /$fEdward Goldberg 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 311 $a1-4426-4383-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Blanis Letters --$tA Note to Readers --$tThe Blanis Letters, 1615-1621 --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex of Names --$tIndex of Places --$tIndex of Topics 330 $aEdward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Over the course of six years, Benedetto Blanis - a scholar and entrepreneur in the Florentine Ghetto - wrote nearly 200 letters to his princely patron Don Giovanni dei Medici. For the first time, these letters are available in a definitive critical edition - with full transcriptions in the original Italian, English language summaries, and explanatory notes. This book is a companion volume to Jews and Magic in Medici Florence, in which Goldberg narrates Blanis's startling rise and fall. Readers can now take a step closer and hear Blanis's compelling story in his own words - tracing his fraught relations with Jews and Christians, his desperate (and often illegal) business schemes, his disastrous strategies for advancement at the Medici Court, and his pursuit of arcane knowledge, including astrology, alchemy, and Kabbalah. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aJews$zItaly$zFlorence$vCorrespondence 606 $aLibrarians$zItaly$zFlorence$vCorrespondence 607 $aFlorence (Italy)$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews 615 0$aLibrarians 676 $a945.07092 700 $aBlanis$b Benedetto$f1580-1647,$0976357 702 $aGoldberg$b Edward L.$f1948- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461789603321 996 $aA Jew at the Medici Court$92224218 997 $aUNINA