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A Convert's Tale - Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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A Convert's Tale - Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources,
of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance
who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and
converted to Catholicism. In 1491 the renowned goldsmith Salomone
da Sesso converted to Catholicism. Born in the mid-fifteenth
century to a Jewish family in Florence, Salomone later settled in
Ferrara, where he was regarded as a virtuoso artist whose exquisite
jewelry and lavishly engraved swords were prized by Italy's ruling
elite. But rumors circulated about Salomone's behavior,
scandalizing the Jewish community, who turned him over to the civil
authorities. Charged with sodomy, Salomone was sentenced to die but
agreed to renounce Judaism to save his life. He was baptized,
taking the name Ercole "de' Fedeli" ("One of the Faithful"). With
the help of powerful patrons like Duchess Eleonora of Aragon and
Duke Ercole d'Este, his namesake, Ercole lived as a practicing
Catholic for three more decades. Drawing on newly discovered
archival sources, Tamar Herzig traces the dramatic story of his
life, half a century before ecclesiastical authorities made Jewish
conversion a priority of the Catholic Church. A Convert's Tale
explores the Jewish world in which Salomone was born and raised;
the glittering objects he crafted, and their status as courtly
hallmarks; and Ercole's relations with his wealthy patrons. Herzig
also examines homosexuality in Renaissance Italy, the response of
Jewish communities and Christian authorities to allegations of
sexual crimes, and attitudes toward homosexual acts among
Christians and Jews. In Salomone/Ercole's story we see how
precarious life was for converts from Judaism, and how contested
was the meaning of conversion for both the apostates' former
coreligionists and those tasked with welcoming them to their new
faith.
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