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Isaac Abravanel : letters / edition, translation and introduction by Cedric Cohen Skalli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508.
- Series:
- Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 40.
- Studia Judaica ; Bd. 40
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rabbis--Correspondence.
- Rabbis.
- Jewish statesmen--Portugal--Correspondence.
- Jewish statesmen.
- Jewish statesmen--Spain--Correspondence.
- Jewish statesmen--Italy--Correspondence.
- Jewish philosophers--Correspondence.
- Jewish philosophers.
- Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508--Correspondence.
- Abravanel, Isaac.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Walter De Gruyter, Inc, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous "portraits" that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel's assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian - in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Foreword
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Letters. Edition and Translation
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-089666-4
- OCLC:
- 1013956998
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