In October 1481 the Jewish widow Bella (daughter of Salomone da Bologna and wife of the late Vitale da Siena) and a converted tailor, Benedetto son of Luca (another convert), are respectively sentenced to the stake and banned for having had a love affair. The story, as evidenced in the documents of the Florentine Otto di Guardia e Balia, offers implications that go beyond the immediate aspects of romance and brings us back, at first, to the delicate issue of the regulation of relations between Christians and Jews by the authorities and to the problem of a possible return of the apostate Jew to the religion of their fathers
«Perché il dilicto suo è di grande importantia». Bella, vedova ebrea, e il convertito Benedetto nella Toscana del Quattrocento
Mafalda Toniazzi
2014-01-01
Abstract
In October 1481 the Jewish widow Bella (daughter of Salomone da Bologna and wife of the late Vitale da Siena) and a converted tailor, Benedetto son of Luca (another convert), are respectively sentenced to the stake and banned for having had a love affair. The story, as evidenced in the documents of the Florentine Otto di Guardia e Balia, offers implications that go beyond the immediate aspects of romance and brings us back, at first, to the delicate issue of the regulation of relations between Christians and Jews by the authorities and to the problem of a possible return of the apostate Jew to the religion of their fathersFile in questo prodotto:
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