Jews and magic in Medici Florence : the secret world of Benedetto Blanis /
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...
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©2011
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Habeas Corpus?