A Convert's Tale : Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy /
Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone's world-his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Sumario: | Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone's world-his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
ISBN: | 9780674242555 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704730 9783110704525 9783110652031 |
Acceso: | restricted access |