Sarra Copia Sulam : A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice / Lynn Lara Westwater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westwater, Lynn Lara, Author.

Series:

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women.

Copia Sulam, Sarra, 1592-1641.

Copia Sulam, Sarra.

Italy--Venice.

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

Venice (Italy).

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Timeline

Dramatis Personae

Note on the Text

Introduction

An Intellectual Woman in the Venetian Ghetto

Women's Writing in Venice

The Querelle des Femmes and Venetian Women Writers

The Accademia degli Incogniti and the Querelle

Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonniere and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice

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

Overview

Early Contacts

The Salon Begins

A Crisis in the Salon

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

The History of the Debate over the Immortality of the Soul

Bonifaccio and Copia Sulam's Letter Exchange on the Soul's Immortality

Bonifaccio's Dell'immortalità dell'anima

3. The Salon and the Venetian Presses (1621)

Copia Sulam's Manifesto

4. Copia Sulam Compromised (1622-1623)

The End of the Copia Sulam-Cebà Correspondence

Cebà Defends Himself to the Church

The Lettere a Sarra Copia

5. Friends and Enemies (1621-1626)

The Betrayal and Its Punishment

Numidio Paluzzi's Rime

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

Gabriele Zinano's Rime diverse

A Resuscitated Reputation: Alessandro Berardelli

A Renewed Attack against Copia Sulam, and a Defence

Eighteenth-Century Literary Histories

The Roots of Modern Scholarship

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: SARRA COPIA SULAM IN THE VENETIAN GHETTO

The Copio Family

Marriage to Giacob Sulam

Sarra Copia Sulam's Exceptionality

Pressure to Convert

APPENDIX A: LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF SIMON COPIO

APPENDIX B: INVENTORY OF SIMON COPIO'S HOUSE AT HIS DEATH

APPENDIX C: CURRENCY VALUES

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3279-2

1-4875-3278-4

OCLC:

1131818864