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Author Blanis, Benedetto, approximately 1580-1647.

Title A Jew at the Medici Court : the letters of Benedetto Blanis hebreo (1615-1621) / Edward Goldberg.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and indexes.
Contents Introduction : the Blanis letters -- A note to readers -- The Blanis letters : a critical edition.
Summary "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.
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Language Letters in Italian with some text in Hebrew and Latin. Introduction, note to readers, and summaries in English.
Subject Blanis, Benedetto, approximately 1580-1647 -- Correspondence.
Blanis, Benedetto, approximately 1580-1647.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Medici, Giovanni de', 1567-1621 -- Correspondence.
Medici, Giovanni de', 1567-1621.
Blanis, Benedetto, approximately 1580-1647.
Medici, Giovanni de', 1567-1621.
Blanis, Benedetto, approximately 1580-1647 -- Correspondance.
Medici, Giovanni de', 1567-1621 -- Correspondance.
Jews -- Italy -- Florence -- Correspondence.
Jews.
Italy -- Florence.
Librarians -- Italy -- Florence -- Correspondence.
Librarians.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Goldberg, Edward L., 1948-
ISBN 9781442698017 (electronic book)
1442698012 (electronic book)