Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance: Sources and Encounters

Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I - Kabbalah and Mysticism; Giulio Camillo's Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah; Lina Bolzoni; Entering the Labyrinth: On the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Universe of Egidio da Viterbo; Daniel Stein-Kokin; Whither Kabbalah? Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Kabbalah, and the Disputations against Judicial Astrology; Sheila J. Rabin; Part II - Philosophy and the Humanities; A - The Abravanel; A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter with Renaissance Culture; Cedric Cohen Skalli; Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore as a Pivotal Document of Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome; James Nelson Novoa; B - Philosophical Aspects; The Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World: A Chapter in Early Modern Jewish-Italian Literature; Alessandro Guetta; Authority vs. Authenticity. The Leiden Debate on Bible and Hebrew (1575-1650); Arthur Eyffinger; C - Conversos, Language and Baroque; De la purete de sang aux XVe et XVIe siecles; Annie Molinie et Beatrice Perez; L'implicite a propos des Juifs de Rome; Ilana Zinguer; Vers une semiotique du Judaisme a l'age baroque; Georges Molinie; D - Literature; Moses Zacuto Poet of Kabbalah; Dvora Bregman; Le Role de la poesie Hebraique dans l'enseignement de Charles Utenhove; Philip Ford; E - Hebraism and Geographical Thought; The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno's Messianic Thought; Fabrizio Lelli; Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel a Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre; Frank Lestringant; Conclusion; Race, Antisemitism and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy; David Baum