Isaac Abravanel, letters / edition, translation and introduction by Cedric Cohen Skalli.
Isaac Abravanel 1437-1508
ספרAlmost 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.
כותר |
Letters |
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מוציא לאור |
Berlin New York : Walter De Gruyter, Inc |
שנה |
c2007 |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Issued also in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Front matter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Letters. Edition and Translation -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index |
סדרה |
Studia Judaica Bd. 40 |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (212 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010711742605171 |
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