Veltri, Giuseppe. Miletto, Gianfranco. text Electronic books. ne Leiden BRILL 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (333 p.) Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533-1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world. Preface; I. Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work; 1. Judah Moscato: Biographical Data and Writings; 2. Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto; 3. Moscato as Eulogizer; 4. On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato's Qol Yehudah; 5. Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato's Nefusot Yehudah; 6. Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua; 7. Judah Moscato's Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey. II. The Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in 16th-17th Centuries8. The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with an Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry; 9. The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Mantua; 10. Spatial Stories: Mantua and the Painted Jew; 11. Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman, and the Off-key Priest: Some Reflections on Christians and Christianity in Yiddish Literary Texts from the Italian Renaissance. 12. Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the "Holy Diana" in the Mantuan Synagogue13. On Abraham's Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yesirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context; 14. The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo; 15. Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua: A Reassessment; Bibliography; Subject Index. edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto. Moscato, Judah ben Joseph ca. 1530-ca. 1593 Congresses Rabbis Italy Mantua Biography Congresses Jews Italy Mantua Intellectual life 16th century Congresses Jews Italy Mantua Intellectual life 17th century Congresses Jews Italy Mantua Intellectual life 16th century Congresses Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, ca. 1530-ca. 1593 Congresses Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, ca. 1530-ca. 1593 Rabbis Italy Mantua Biography Congresses RELIGION / Judaism / History BM755.M59 296.092 Veltri, Giuseppe Leiden : BRILL, c2012 9789004222465 (electronic bk.) 9004222464 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=878151 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=443432 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=878151 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=443432 EBLCP 120402 20200709055505.0 ocn782879947 eng