Isaac Abravanel: Letters - Couverture rigide

Abravanel, Isaac

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110194929 ISBN 13 : 9783110194920

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Cedric Cohen Skalli, Shalem Center of Jerusalem, Israel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: hébreu
• ISBN 10: 3110194929
• ISBN 13: 9783110194920
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Cohen Skalli Cedric
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