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Author: Edward L. Goldberg
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1442643838

A Jew at the Medici Court: The Letters of Benedetto Blanis Hebreo (1615-1621) (Toronto Italian Studies)

Edward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Get A Jew at the Medici Court literature books for free.
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 r Check A Jew at the Medici Court our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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