{"product_id":"jew-at-the-medici-court-edward-l-goldberg-9781442643833","title":"Jew at the Medici Court: The Letters of Benedetto Blanis Hebreo (1615-1621)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Over the course of six years, Benedetto Blanis -- a scholar and entrepreneur in the Florentine Ghetto -- wrote nearly 200 letters to his princely patron Don Giovanni dei Medici. For the first time, these letters are available in a definitive critical edition -- with full transcriptions in the original Italian, English language summaries, and explanatory notes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is a companion volume to \u003cem\u003eJews and Magic in Medici Florence\u003c\/em\u003e, in which Goldberg narrates Blanis's startling rise and fall. Readers can now take a step closer and hear Blanis's compelling story in his own words -- tracing his fraught relations with Jews and Christians, his desperate (and often illegal) business schemes, his disastrous strategies for advancement at the Medici Court, and his pursuit of arcane knowledge, including astrology, alchemy, and Kabbalah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward L. Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442643838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442643833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d","brand":"Edward L. Goldberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065597571327,"sku":"9781442643833","price":111.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_69776455-7577-4127-8118-dda586312c56.jpg?v=1768676030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jew-at-the-medici-court-edward-l-goldberg-9781442643833","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}