It was a late summer night in Florence. And as usual, dinner was delayed and delayed and delayed...
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
WHO'S THAT GUY?
Maggino di Gabriello:
a contemporary - and probable acquaintance - of Benedetto Blanis.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
THE BLANIS LETTERS...NOW AVAILABLE!
A JEW AT THE MEDICI COURT:
THE LETTERS OF
BENEDETTO BLANIS HEBREO
(1615-1621)
University of Toronto Press
ISBN 978-1-4426-4383-3
448 pages; Clothbound
$85 (Cover Price)
CIAO, TUTTI!
A Jew at the
A JEW AT THE MEDICI COURT...
PREVIEW!A JEW AT THE MEDICI COURT:
THE LETTERS OF
BENEDETTO BLANIS HEBREO
(1615-1621)
OCTOBER 2011 (Release Date)
OCTOBER 2011 (Release Date)
University of Toronto Press
ISBN 978-1-4426-4383-3
448 pages; Clothbound
$85 (Cover Price)
$85 (Cover Price)
INTRODUCTION: THE BLANIS LETTERS
I. WORDS ON PAPER
II. CLIENT AND PATRON
III. THE ACCIDENT OF SURVIVAL
IV. DATING AND PROVENANCE
V. NAMES AND REFERENCES
VI. RELATED DOCUMENTATION
II. CLIENT AND PATRON
III. THE ACCIDENT OF SURVIVAL
IV. DATING AND PROVENANCE
V. NAMES AND REFERENCES
VI. RELATED DOCUMENTATION
Thursday, February 3, 2011
JEWS AND MAGIC...
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence
It all began with a breathtaking discovery in the Medici Granducal Archive. I found a cache of two hundred letters from Benedetto Blanis (a Jew in the Florentine Ghetto) to his great patron Don Giovanni dei Medici (the illegitimate son of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany). This is the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in early modern Europe .
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