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{en} Giuseppe Veltri - Gianfranco Miletto, eds. Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries. Leiden: BRILL, 2012.

Abstract

Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533-1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.

Contents

Preface; I. Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work; 1. Judah Moscato: Biographical Data and Writings; 2. Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto; 3. Moscato as Eulogizer; 4. On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato's Qol Yehudah; 5. Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato's Nefusot Yehudah; 6. Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua; 7. Judah Moscato's Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey.; II. The Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in 16th-17th Centuries8. The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with an Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry; 9. The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Mantua; 10. Spatial Stories: Mantua and the Painted Jew; 11. Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman, and the Off-key Priest: Some Reflections on Christians and Christianity in Yiddish Literary Texts from the Italian Renaissance.; 12. Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the "Holy Diana" in the Mantuan Synagogue13. On Abraham's Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yesirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context; 14. The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo; 15. Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua: A Reassessment.