LEADER 03551nam 2200793 450 001 9910790289003321 005 20230501055320.0 010 $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(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(MiAaPQ)EBC4672964 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3279087 035 $a(dli)HEB33935.0001.001 035 $a(MiU)MIU01200000000000000000208 035 $a(OCoLC)1298518486 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105803 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 300 $aPrinted in Canada. 300 $aPrinted on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks. 311 $a1-4426-4383-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : the Blanis letters -- A note to readers -- The Blanis letters : a critical edition. 330 $a"Edward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Over the course of six years, Benedetto Blanis - a scholar and entrepreneur in the Florentine Ghetto - wrote nearly 200 letters to his princely patron Don Giovanni dei Medici. For the first time, these letters are available in a definitive critical edition - with full transcriptions in the original Italian, English language summaries, and explanatory notes. This book is a companion volume to Jews and Magic in Medici Florence, in which Goldberg narrates Blanis's startling rise and fall. Readers can now take a step closer and hear Blanis's compelling story in his own words - tracing his fraught relations with Jews and Christians, his desperate (and often illegal) business schemes, his disastrous strategies for advancement at the Medici Court, and his pursuit of arcane knowledge, including astrology, alchemy, and Kabbalah."--Pub. desc. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aJews$zItaly$zFlorence$vCorrespondence 606 $aLibrarians$zItaly$zFlorence$vCorrespondence 607 $aFlorence (Italy)$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aPersonal correspondence. 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews 615 0$aLibrarians 676 $a945.07092 686 $a8,2$2ssgn 700 $aBlanis$b Benedetto$f1580-1647,$01514614 702 $aGoldberg$b Edward L.$f1948- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790289003321 996 $aA Jew at the Medici Court$93749892 997 $aUNINA