| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the general phenomena of ghettoization in Early Modern Italy analyzing the lengthy courtly disputations that embroiled Christian authorities and Jews in Ancona and Rome on the eve of the institutionalization of ghettos. By focusing in particular on a case concerning the collapse of a Jewish engagement in Ancona, and which that involved a multitude of people - Jews, Christians and a Neophyte and even the famous cardinal Carlo Borromeo - it seeks to understand the changing relationship between Jewish Communities and Papal Institutions. In doing so, it sheds light on the uninterrupted movement of people, news and goods throughout the Italian Jewish Communities and out of the peninsula, particularly with the close Ottoman coast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
