Sarra Copia Sulam : a Jewish salonnière and the press in Counter-Reformation Venice / Lynn Lara Westwater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westwater, Lynn Lara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copia Sulam, Sarra, 1592-1641.

Copia Sulam, Sarra.

Jewish women--Italy--Venice--Biography.

Jewish women.

Jewish women authors--Italy--Venice--Biography.

Jewish women authors.

Salons.

History.

Venice (Italy)--Intellectual life--17th century.

Venice (Italy).

Salons--Italy--Venice--History--17th century.

Venice (Italy)--Social life and customs--17th century.

Venice (Italy)--Religion--17th century.

Intellectual life.

Manners and customs.

Religion.

Italy--Venice.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Summary:

"For nearly a decade at the height of the Counter-Reformation in Italy, the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam (ca. 1592-1641) held a literary salon at her house in the Venetian ghetto, providing one of the most public and enduring forums for Jewish-Christian interaction in early modern Venice. Though Copia Sulam gained fame for her erudition, built a powerful intellectual network, and published a work on the immortality of the soul, her career later foundered under the weight of slanderous charges against her sexual, professional, and religious integrity. This first biography of Copia Sulam examines the explosive relationship between gender, religion, and the press in seventeenth-century Venice through a study of her literary career. The backdrop to this inquiry is Venice's tumultuous religious, cultural, and political climate and the competitive world of its presses, where men and women, Christians and Jews, alternately collaborated and clashed as they sought to gain a foothold in the most prestigious publishing capital in Europe."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 The Birth of a Salon (1618-1621) p. 21

2 A Rupture in the Salon (1619-1621) p. 53

3 The Salon and the Venetian Presses (1621) p. 75

4 Copia Sulam Compromised (1622-1623) p. 105

5 Friends and Enemies (1621-1626) p. 126

6 The Salon's Afterlife (Post-1626) p. 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1487505833

9781487505837

OCLC:

1089981162