000438874 000__ 04478cam\a2200505\a\4500 000438874 001__ 438874 000438874 005__ 20210513153004.0 000438874 006__ m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ 000438874 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000438874 008__ 120604t20112011oncacfh\ob\\\\001\0deng\\ 000438874 016__ $$z20109061365 000438874 020__ $$a9781442693494 (electronic bk.) 000438874 020__ $$z9781442613331 (pbk.) 000438874 020__ $$z9781442642256 000438874 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn755882735 000438874 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10488800 000438874 035__ $$a438874 000438874 040__ $$aCaOONL$$cCaOONL$$dCaOONL$$dCaBNVSL$$dCaPaEBR 000438874 043__ $$ae-it--- 000438874 0450_ $$au-u- 000438874 050_4 $$aDG738.23$$b.G64 2011eb 000438874 0820_ $$a945/.5100492409032$$222 000438874 1001_ $$aGoldberg, Edward L.,$$d1948- 000438874 24510 $$aJews and magic in Medici Florence$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe secret world of Benedetto Blanis /$$cEdward Goldberg. 000438874 260__ $$aToronto [Ont.] :$$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$$cc2011. 000438874 300__ $$a1 online resource (xiv, 331 p., [16] p. of plates) :$$bill., facsims., geneal. table, ports. 000438874 4901_ $$aToronto Italian studies series 000438874 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-312) and index. 000438874 5050_ $$aThe piazza -- The palace. The Medici family ; Palazzo Pitti ; Don Giovanni dei Medici ; Benedetto Blanis at court -- The ghetto. Benedetto at home ; The Blanis family ; The creation of the ghetto ; Segregation, conversation, and confusion ; Ghetto government ; Benedetto's neighbours -- The synagogue. The synagogue as it was ; On the bench ; Men of authority ; Quarrels and dissension ; Italians and Levantines -- Memory and survival. The Jewish year ; Home and family ; Observance ; Justice and commandments -- The market. Shopping ; Market and ghetto ; Blanis and sons ; Stolen goods ; Scrocchi Barocchi ; Rich Jews -- Knowledge and power. Books ; Tree of Kabbalah ; Medicean planets ; Silver, gold, and grappa ; The fish pond -- Games of chance. Porta al prato ; Risky business ; Jew mad Christian -- The mirror of truth. On the road ; Venice ; The mirror of truth ; At home with Livia and Don Giovanni ; Fire at the fair ; Florence -- The magic circle. Fellow travellers ; The late Cosimo Ridolfi ; The workshop ; The apprentice -- 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) -- Prison. Misery and woe ; Beginning of the end ; Cosmic battle ; Out of sight and out of mind -- Habeas Corpus? 000438874 520__ $$aEdward Goldberg reveals the dramas of daily life behind the scenes in the Pitti Palace and in the narrow byways of the Florentine Ghetto, using thousands of new documents from the Medici Granducal Archive. He shows that truth - especially historical truth - can be stranger than fiction, when viewed through the eyes of the people most immediately involved."--pub. desc. 000438874 520__ $$a"In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis - a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynasty - sought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked. 000438874 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000438874 60010 $$aBlanis, Benedetto,$$dca. 1580-1647$$vCorrespondence. 000438874 60010 $$aBlanis, Benedetto,$$dca. 1580-1647. 000438874 60010 $$aMedici, Giovanni de',$$d1567-1621. 000438874 650_0 $$aJews$$zItaly$$zFlorence$$xSocial life and customs$$y17th century. 000438874 650_0 $$aJews$$zItaly$$zFlorence$$vBiography. 000438874 651_0 $$aFlorence (Italy)$$xSocial life and customs$$y17th century. 000438874 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000438874 77608 $$iPrint version: 000438874 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aGoldberg, Edward L., 1948-$$tJews and magic in Medici Florence.$$dToronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011$$z9781442642256$$z9781442613331$$w(DLC) 2011381825$$w(OCoLC)667805504 000438874 830_0 $$aToronto Italian studies. 000438874 8520_ $$bacq 000438874 85280 $$bebk$$hProquest Ebook Central 000438874 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3275964$$zOnline Access 000438874 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:438874$$pGLOBAL_SET 000438874 980__ $$aEBOOK 000438874 980__ $$aBIB 000438874 982__ $$aEbook 000438874 983__ $$aOnline