Jews and magic in Medici Florence
Subtitle: the secret world of Benedetto Blanis
By: Edward Goldberg
Series: Toronto Italian studies series
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781442642256
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Jews; Mœurs et coutumes; Biographies; Juifs; Correspondance; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: The piazza; title: The palace. The Medici family ; Palazzo Pitti ; Don Giovanni dei Medici ; Benedetto Blanis at court; title: The ghetto. Benedetto at home ; The Blanis family ; The creation of the ghetto ; Segregation, conversation, and confusion ; Ghetto government ; Benedetto's neighbours; title: The synagogue. The synagogue as it was ; On the bench ; Men of authority ; Quarrels and dissension ; Italians and Levantines; title: Memory and survival. The Jewish year ; Home and family ; Observance ; Justice and commandments; title: The market. Shopping ; Market and ghetto ; Blanis and sons ; Stolen goods ; Scrocchi Barocchi ; Rich Jews; title: Knowledge and power. Books ; Tree of Kabbalah ; Medicean planets ; Silver, gold, and grappa ; The fish pond; title: Games of chance. Porta al prato ; Risky business ; Jew mad Christian; title: The mirror of truth. On the road ; Venice ; The mirror of truth ; At home with Livia and Don Giovanni ; Fire at the fair ; Florence; title: The magic circle. Fellow travellers ; The late Cosimo Ridolfi ; The workshop ; The apprentice; title: Curious and forbidden books. Passover and Easter ; Days of scruples ; Holy cross ; Bad Jew ; Business as usual (I) ; Divine favours ; Jews and converts ; Business as usual (II); title: Prison. Misery and woe ; Beginning of the end ; Cosmic battle ; Out of sight and out of mind; title: Habeas Corpus?