Jews and magic in Medici Florence [electronic resource] : the secret world of Benedetto Blanis / Edward Goldberg.
Goldberg, Edward L., 1948-
2011
DG738.23 .G64 2011eb
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Title Jews and magic in Medici Florence [electronic resource] : the secret world of Benedetto Blanis / Edward Goldberg.
Author Goldberg, Edward L., 1948-
ISBN 9781442693494 (electronic bk.)
9781442613331 (pbk.)
9781442642256
Imprint Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 331 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., facsims., geneal. table, ports.
Call Number DG738.23 .G64 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 945/.5100492409032
Summary Edward 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.
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-312) and index.
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Series Toronto Italian studies.
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The 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
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