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

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

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages) Series Toronto Italian studies Toronto Italian studies. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and indexes Notes 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 Medici, Giovanni de', 1567-1621 -- Correspondence Blanis, Benedetto, approximately 1580-1647 Medici, Giovanni de', 1567-1621 Jews -- Italy -- Florence -- Correspondence Librarians -- Italy -- Florence -- Correspondence HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy. HISTORY -- Renaissance. Jews Librarians Florence (Italy) -- History -- 17th century Italy -- Florence Genre/Form History Personal correspondence Form Electronic book Author Goldberg, Edward L., 1948- author. ISBN 9781442698017 1442698012

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