Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis by Edward L. Goldberg

Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis

Toronto Italian Studies (Paperback)

Edward L. Goldberg

331 pages missing pub info (editions)

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In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand de...

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