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Let me tell you about my search for Benedetto Blanis hebreo! It began with my startling discovery of his letters in the Florentine National Archive. Then it took me to many strange and unexpected places in the now vanished Ghetto and behind the scenes at the Medici Court.

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IN SEARCH OF BENEDETTO BLANIS...

It was a late summer night in Florence. And as usual, dinner was delayed and delayed and delayed...

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Available: 7 August 2011

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WHO'S THAT GUY?

  

Maggino di Gabriello:

a contemporary - and probable acquaintance - of Benedetto Blanis.

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)

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CIAO, TUTTI!

A Jew at the Medici Court: The Letters of Benedetto Blanis Hebreo (1615-1621) has been  released by the University of Toronto Press. This is the essential companion volume to Jews and Magic in Medici Florence, featuring Benedetto’s two hundred letters to his great patron Don Giovanni dei Medici, exactly as he wrote them —plus English language summaries and explanatory notes.

 

A JEW AT THE MEDICI COURT...

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A JEW AT THE MEDICI COURT:

THE LETTERS OF

BENEDETTO BLANIS HEBREO

(1615-1621)

OCTOBER 2011 (Release Date)

University of Toronto Press

ISBN 978-1-4426-4383-3

448 pages; Clothbound
$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

JEWS AND MAGIC...

CIAO, TUTTI!

Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis is coming off the press – now as we speak – after many years and many adventures.

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.