Isaac Abravanel: Letters
This first critical edition of Isaac Abravanel's correspondence opens a window into the cultural, political and commercial world of one of the first Jewish humanists of the quattrocento. Jewish leader of the expelled Sephardim after 1492, commentator of the Bible, Abravanel is a legendary figure of the Sephardic history. The edition of the letters along with the introductive essay that reconstructs their cultural background intends to connect the legendary figure of Abravanel to the major...
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Foreword VIIIntroduction 1The Portuguese and Hebrew Manuscript Transmission of the Letters 1Historical Interest and Literary Content of Abravanel's Letters 10The Past Editions of Abravanel's Letters 74The Present Edition 77Edition and Translation 79A Portuguese Letter, 1470-1471 81First Hebrew Letter, 1472 99Second Hebrew Letter, 1481 133Third Hebrew Letter, 1482 149Appendices 167A letter of the Council of Santarem containing a quotation of a letter of Yehuda Abravanel and another Castillan Jew to the King Afonso V 169Notary registry of the slave referred in Abravanel's first Hebrew letter 179Registry of Isaac Abravanel's and Latao's account at the bank of Francesco and Bernardo Cambini 181Bibliography 183Index of Persons 193
