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A convert's tale : art, crime, and Jewish apostasy in Renaissance Italy / Tamar Herzig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herzig, Tamar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fedeli, Ercole dei, approximately 1465-.
- Fedeli, Ercole dei.
- Christian converts from Judaism--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- Christian converts from Judaism--Italy--History--16th century.
- Goldsmiths--Italy--Biography.
- Goldsmiths.
- Art patronage--Italy--History.
- Art patronage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (401 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Convert’s Tale
- I. THE VIRTUOSO JEW
- II. APOSTASY
- III. A FAMILY OF CONVERTS
- IV. BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
- Epilogue: One of the Faithful?
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674242562
- 0674242564
- 9780674242555
- 0674242556
- OCLC:
- 1149529895
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