Lucca 1493: un sequestro di lettere ebraiche

Cédric Cohen Skalli; Michele Luzzati

Lucca 1493: un sequestro di lettere ebraiche: Edizione e commento storico

Authors

Cédric Cohen Skalli

University of Haifa

Michele Luzzati

University of Pisa

Keywords:

jews, lucca, tuscany, Medieval History, Modern History, Epistolography, Latium, Jewish economic history, Jewish social history

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Archive of Jewish Studies

Pages: 305

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-25861

Abstract: The book reconstructs an episode of Tuscan and Jewish history that took place in 1493, which allows us to highlight a long series of peculiar aspects of the relationship between Jews and Christians in the Italian Renaissance. It is a series of accusations, incriminations, trials, incarcerations, which see the Jewish moneylender Davide da Tivoli at its center. The story will end with the closure of his bank in Lucca, and with the replacement of the Jewish loan with the Christian Monte di Pietà. To the wide range of available sources ‒ which document the very high socio-economic and cultural level of the protagonists ‒ we now add this precious correspondence in Hebrew, which allows us to approach, from a unique perspective, the daily epistolary activity of Jewish families in late fifteenth century Tuscany: offering a new picture of the familiar, social and cultural relationships of these Jewish moneylenders, and their links with the people and institutions of the Christian world.

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Author Biographies

Cédric Cohen Skalli, University of Haifa

Cedric Cohen Skalli teaches Early modern and modern Jewish Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He is the director of the Bucerius Institute for the Research of Contemporary German History and Society. His research focuses on the relationship of Jewish thinkers to two main philosophical shifts: the shift from Medieval philosophy to early modern thought (14^th-17^th century), and the shift from early modern to modern thought (18^th-20^th century). He published three books and many articles on diverse aspects of Jewish thought and literature in the Renaissance and several essays on German 20^th century philosophy. He is also translator of many works of Freud, Benjamin, Scholem, Idel and Abravanel.

Michele Luzzati, University of Pisa

Michele Luzzati taught Medieval History at the University of Pisa. His research field included the Tuscan society and economy of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Through his numerous studies on the history of the Jews in Tuscany, he has offered an essential contribution to the history of Italian Judaism. Among the latest publications: Jews and Judaism in Pisa - A Millennium of Uninterrupted Oresence (2005).