Letters : Edition, Translation and Introduction

Autor:	Isaac Abravanel, Cedric Cohen Skalli
Předmět:	Jewish statesmen--Italy--Correspondence, Jewish philosophers--Correspondence, Rabbis--Correspondence, Jewish statesmen--Portugal--Correspondence, Jewish statesmen--Spain--Correspondence
Kategorie:	RELIGION / Judaism / History, HISTORY / Modern / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
Popis:	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.
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