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Autore: | Abravanel Isaac <1437-1508.> |
Titolo: | Letters |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, Inc, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
Disciplina: | 296.3092 |
Soggetto topico: | Rabbis |
Jewish statesmen - Portugal | |
Jewish statesmen - Spain | |
Jewish statesmen - Italy | |
Jewish philosophers | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Humanism |
Letter writting | |
Renaissance Judaism | |
Renaissance Portuguese literature | |
Classificazione: | BD 4256 |
Altri autori: | Cohen SkalliCedric |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Letters |
ISBN: | 3-11-089666-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910788420503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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