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016			_z20109061365 (print)
020			_a9781442693494 (electronic bk.)
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100	1		_aGoldberg, Edward L., _d1948-
245	1	0	_aJews and magic in Medici Florence _h[electronic resource] : _bthe secret world of Benedetto Blanis / _cEdward Goldberg.
260			_aToronto [Ont.] : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _cc2011 _e(Saint-Lazare, Quebec : _fCanadian Electronic Library, _g2011)
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 331 p., [16] p. of plates) : _bill., facsims., geneal. table, ports., digital file.
490	1		_aToronto Italian studies series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-312) and index.
505	0		_aThe 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?
520			_aEdward 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 through the eyes of the people most immediately involved."--Pub. desc.
520			_a"In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis - a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynasty - sought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked.
600	1	0	_aBlanis, Benedetto, _dca. 1580-1647 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aBlanis, Benedetto, _dca. 1580-1647.
600	1	0	_aMedici, Giovanni de', _d1567-1621.
650		0	_aJews _zItaly _zFlorence _xSocial life and customs _y17th century.
650		0	_aJews _zItaly _zFlorence _vBiography.
651		0	_aFlorence (Italy) _xSocial life and customs _y17th century.
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655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781442642256
830		0	_aToronto Italian studies.
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