Francesca Bregoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 299918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Bregoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bregoli |
| SIGNATURE | BREGOLI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Livornese Slaves in Algiers
This essay analyzes a recently discovered French play, Les esclaves livournais à Alger , authored by François Gariel in Livorno in 1786. The protagonist of the piece, which is full of allusions to contemporary Tuscan and European events and subtle references to classics of French Enlightenment literature, is a virtuous, Algiers-based Jewish merchant who preaches toleration for all peoples and religions and greatly admires the grand duke of Tuscan…
Living under the Evil Pope
Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew “Chronicle of Pope Paul IV” by Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th Cent.). Martina Mampieri. Studies in Jewish History and Culture 58. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xx + 400 pp. €168. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Les esclaves livournais à Alger
Les esclaves livournais à Alger: La question juive et le théâtre politique en Toscane à la fin du xviiie siècleCet article analyse une pièce de théâtre française récemment découverte, Les esclaves livournais à Alger, écrite par François Gariel et publiée à Livourne en 1786. Le protagoniste de la pièce, qui fourmille d'allusions à des événements toscans et européens contemporains et de références subtiles à des classiques de la littérature françai…
Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
The Unexpected in Early Modern Jewish Life
The Unexpected in Early Modern Jewish Life Francesca Bregoli "There is a danger that the history of coffee lead us astray. The anecdotal, the picturesque, and the unreliable play an enormous part in it." In his celebrated essay on coffee, coffeehouses, and early modern Jewish nocturnal rituals, Elliott Horowitz quoted these words by Fernand Braudel as "a warning and an invitation."1 Elliott's pioneering work on what he dubbed "the social history …
Your Father's Interests
Although kinship ties are understood to have been crucial for the functioning of Jewish diasporic trade, familiarity and affective bonds are the very elements that are strained by diasporic separation: how did merchant households maintain a sense of ongoing familiarity and obligation once family members were physically separated? Attention to the emotional discourse found in merchant letters can reorient our thinking on how Jewish family ties wer…
Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller, editors. Purchasing Power
This timely collection gathers eleven excellent essays prefaced by an informative introduction. The first six chapters address the extent and role of Jewish “economic power” in the early modern and modern periods by investigating implications of Jewish economic activities in Italy, the Pyrenees, eighteenth-century Central European lands, nineteenth-century Polish cities and the British Empire, and the twentieth-century Anglo-American music indust…
The Age of Secrecy
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Gli abitanti del ghetto di Roma
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Mediterranean Enlightenment
Mediterranean Enlightenment
This study offers a new take on the engagement of Jews with outside culture and the interplay of the Jewish community with the reforming state through a study of the Jews (nazione ebrea) of eighteenth-century Livorno, a bustling free port in Tuscany, an Italian state known for its far-reaching reforms inspired by Enlightenment principles.
Biblical Poetry, Spinozist Hermeneutics, and Critical Scholarship
This article considers a little known chapter in the long history of the question of the nature of biblical poetry. The debate between the Jewish scholar Raffaele Rabeni and the Christian Hebraist Biagio Garofalo (1710–1714) exemplifies shifting attitudes and concerns of eighteenth century Jewish and Christian polemists. Ostensibly, the exchange concerned an apparently innocuous topic, the “Poetry of the Hebrews”, namely, whether Biblical poetry …
Jewish Scholarship, Science, and the Republic of Letters
Jewish Scholarship, Science, and the Republic of Letters
Joseph Attias (1672–1739) was a Livornese savant who was active, in different roles, in both Jewish and non-Jewish circles. Despite his reputation as a great scholar, reinforced by his well-known exchanges with G. B. Vico and L. A. Muratori, Attias did not leave any literary remains and has never been studied in his own right. The catalogue of Attias' extensive library of more than 1200 volumes, one of the largest Jewish-owned collections in the …
La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie a la fin de la renaissance (review)
Reviewed by: La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie à la fin de la Renaissance Francesca Bregoli Shifra Baruchson-Arbib . La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie à la fin de la Renaissance. Translated from the Hebrew by Gabriel Roth. Documents, études et répertoires66. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001. Pp. 295. When the original Hebrew version of Baruchson-Arbib's book was published in 1993 (Sefarim ve-kor'im: Tarbut ha-keri'ah shel Yehude Italiyah be…
The Mediterranean and the Jews
Your Father's Interests
Although kinship ties are understood to have been crucial for the functioning of Jewish diasporic trade, familiarity and affective bonds are the very elements that are strained by diasporic separation: how did merchant households maintain a sense of ongoing familiarity and obligation once family members were physically separated? Attention to the emotional discourse found in merchant letters can reorient our thinking on how Jewish family ties wer…
The Mediterranean and the Jews
La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie a la fin de la renaissance (review)
Reviewed by: La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie à la fin de la Renaissance Francesca Bregoli Shifra Baruchson-Arbib . La culture livresque des juifs d'Italie à la fin de la Renaissance. Translated from the Hebrew by Gabriel Roth. Documents, études et répertoires66. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001. Pp. 295. When the original Hebrew version of Baruchson-Arbib's book was published in 1993 (Sefarim ve-kor'im: Tarbut ha-keri'ah shel Yehude Italiyah be…
Jewish Scholarship, Science, and the Republic of Letters
Joseph Attias (1672–1739) was a Livornese savant who was active, in different roles, in both Jewish and non-Jewish circles. Despite his reputation as a great scholar, reinforced by his well-known exchanges with G. B. Vico and L. A. Muratori, Attias did not leave any literary remains and has never been studied in his own right. The catalogue of Attias' extensive library of more than 1200 volumes, one of the largest Jewish-owned collections in the …
Jewish Scholarship, Science, and the Republic of Letters
Biblical Poetry, Spinozist Hermeneutics, and Critical Scholarship
This article considers a little known chapter in the long history of the question of the nature of biblical poetry. The debate between the Jewish scholar Raffaele Rabeni and the Christian Hebraist Biagio Garofalo (1710–1714) exemplifies shifting attitudes and concerns of eighteenth century Jewish and Christian polemists. Ostensibly, the exchange concerned an apparently innocuous topic, the “Poetry of the Hebrews”, namely, whether Biblical poetry …
Mediterranean Enlightenment
Mediterranean Enlightenment
This study offers a new take on the engagement of Jews with outside culture and the interplay of the Jewish community with the reforming state through a study of the Jews (nazione ebrea) of eighteenth-century Livorno, a bustling free port in Tuscany, an Italian state known for its far-reaching reforms inspired by Enlightenment principles.
The Age of Secrecy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Gli abitanti del ghetto di Roma
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller, editors. Purchasing Power
This timely collection gathers eleven excellent essays prefaced by an informative introduction. The first six chapters address the extent and role of Jewish “economic power” in the early modern and modern periods by investigating implications of Jewish economic activities in Italy, the Pyrenees, eighteenth-century Central European lands, nineteenth-century Polish cities and the British Empire, and the twentieth-century Anglo-American music indust…
Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
The Unexpected in Early Modern Jewish Life
The Unexpected in Early Modern Jewish Life Francesca Bregoli "There is a danger that the history of coffee lead us astray. The anecdotal, the picturesque, and the unreliable play an enormous part in it." In his celebrated essay on coffee, coffeehouses, and early modern Jewish nocturnal rituals, Elliott Horowitz quoted these words by Fernand Braudel as "a warning and an invitation."1 Elliott's pioneering work on what he dubbed "the social history …
Your Father's Interests
Although kinship ties are understood to have been crucial for the functioning of Jewish diasporic trade, familiarity and affective bonds are the very elements that are strained by diasporic separation: how did merchant households maintain a sense of ongoing familiarity and obligation once family members were physically separated? Attention to the emotional discourse found in merchant letters can reorient our thinking on how Jewish family ties wer…
Living under the Evil Pope
Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew “Chronicle of Pope Paul IV” by Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th Cent.). Martina Mampieri. Studies in Jewish History and Culture 58. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xx + 400 pp. €168. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Les esclaves livournais à Alger
Les esclaves livournais à Alger: La question juive et le théâtre politique en Toscane à la fin du xviiie siècleCet article analyse une pièce de théâtre française récemment découverte, Les esclaves livournais à Alger, écrite par François Gariel et publiée à Livourne en 1786. Le protagoniste de la pièce, qui fourmille d'allusions à des événements toscans et européens contemporains et de références subtiles à des classiques de la littérature françai…
The Livornese Slaves in Algiers
This essay analyzes a recently discovered French play, Les esclaves livournais à Alger , authored by François Gariel in Livorno in 1786. The protagonist of the piece, which is full of allusions to contemporary Tuscan and European events and subtle references to classics of French Enlightenment literature, is a virtuous, Algiers-based Jewish merchant who preaches toleration for all peoples and religions and greatly admires the grand duke of Tuscan…
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