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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 dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis-a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynasty-sought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked.
Edward Goldberg reveals the dramas of daily life behind the scenes in the Pitti Palace and in the narrow byways of the Florentine Ghetto, using thousands of new documents from the Medici Granducal Archive. He shows that truth-especially historical truth-can be stranger than fiction, when viewed through the eyes of the people most immediately involved.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Notes on Sources
The Blanis Family
CHAPTER ONE The Piazza
CHAPTER TWO The Palace
The Medici Family - Palazzo Pitti - Don Giovanni dei Medici - Benedetto Blanis at Court
CHAPTER THREE The Ghetto
Benedetto at Home - The Blanis Family - The Creation of the Ghetto - Segregation, Conversation, and Confusion - Ghetto Government - Benedetto's Neighbours
CHAPTER FOUR The Synagogue
The Synagogue as It Was - On the Bench - Men of Authority - Quarrels and Dissension - Italians and Levantines
CHAPTER FIVE Memory and Survival
The Jewish Year - Home and Family - Observance - Justice and Commandments
CHAPTER SIX The Market
Shopping - Market and Ghetto - Blanis and Sons - Stolen Goods - Scrocchi Barocchi - Rich Jews
CHAPTER SEVEN Knowledge and Power
Books - Tree of Kabbalah - Medicean Planets - Silver, Gold, and Grappa - The Fish Pond
CHAPTER EIGHT Games of Chance
Porta al Prato - Risky Business - Jew Made Christian
CHAPTER NINE The Mirror of Truth
On the Road - Venice - The Mirror of Truth - At Home with Livia and Don Giovanni - Fire at the Fair - Florence
CHAPTER TEN The Magic Circle
Fellow Travellers - The Late Cosimo Ridolfi - The Workshop - The Apprentice
CHAPTER ELEVEN Curious and Forbidden Books
Passover and Easter - Days of Scruples - Holy Cross - Bad Jew - Business as Usual (I) - Divine Favours - Jews and Converts - Business as Usual (II)
CHAPTER TWELVE Prison
Misery and Woe - Beginning of the End - Cosmic Battle - Out of Sight and out of Mind
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Habeas Corpus?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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