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| Autore: |
Abravanel Isaac <1437-1508.>
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| Titolo: |
Letters
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| 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
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| 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 |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; ; Bd. 40.