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Inferno, Purgatory, and Gehinnom: Shared Cosmographic Spaces in Italian-Jewish Descriptions of Hell
Avi Kallenbach
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11 November 2024, pp. 623-657
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This article addresses the explicit utilization of Christian discourse about hell and purgatory within the writings of sixteenth-century Italian Jewry. The vast majority of Jewish texts about hell (gehinnom) from the period ignore Christian discourse on the topic or only allude to it obliquely. Three unpublished Hebrew sources, two of them drawn from informal marginalia, demonstrate a more open approach, in which the infernal cosmography and terminology of Christianity are consciously and explicitly appropriated. These sources not only serve as important case studies for Jewish understandings of hell during the period but also can shed broader light on the types of cultural maneuvering that characterized Jewish cultural life in the Christian milieu of Cinquecento Italy.

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A Soldiers’ Chronicle of the Hundred Years War: College of Arms Manuscript M9. Anne Curry and Rémy Ambühl. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. 456 pp. $120.

Josephus Frobenianus: Editions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Flavius Josephus im Basler Humanismus. Andreas Ammann. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 51. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2021. 282 pp. 56 CHF.

Eclogues: Garden of the Hesperides. Luke Roman, ed. and trans. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. xxx + 285 pp. $35.

Cultural Encounter and Identity in the Neo-Latin World. Camilla Horster and Marianne Pade, eds. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementa 54. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. 262 pp. €32.

Justus Lipsius, Monita et exempla politica: Political Admonitions and Examples. Justus Lipsius. Jan Papy, Toon Van Houdt, and Marijke Janssens, eds. and trans. Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. viii + 688 pp. €120.

Marsilio Ficino: On the Christian Religion. Dan Attrell, Brett Bartlett, and David Porreca, ed. and trans. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 272 pp. $95.

A Patron Family between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples: The Del Riccio in the Shadow of Michelangelo. Vincenzo Sorrentino. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2022. xvii + 258 pp. $150.

Machiavelli: From Radical to Reactionary. Robert Black. London: Reaktion Books, 2022. 256 pp. $25.

Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience. David Karmon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 234 pp. $99.99.

In the Footsteps of Antonello Da Messina: The Antonelliani between Sicily and Venice. Charlene Vella. Malta: Midsea Books, 2022. xviii + 428 pp. €120.

Artistic and Cultural Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean. María Marcos Cobaleda, ed. Mediterranean Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer, 2021. xxxii + 288 pp. $119.99.

Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture. Elizabeth Merrill, ed. Visual and Material Culture 1300–1700. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 380 pp. $150.

Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas. Andrew D Turner, ed. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2022. x + 86 pp. $24.95.

Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire. Jeffrey Chipps Smith. London: Reaktion Books, 2022. 320 pp. £35.

“Di somma aspettazione e di bellissimo ingegno”: Pellegrino Tibaldi e le Marche. Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari, Valentina Balzarotti, and Vittoria Romani, eds. Fonti e studi per la storia dell'arte e del collezionismo. Ancona: Il lavoro editoriale, 2021. 200 pp. €40.

Gendered Touch: Women, Men and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe. Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xiv + 306 pp. $191.

Fra Angelico: Painter, Friar, Mystic. Timothy Verdon. Arts and the Sacred 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 384 pp. €150.

Picturing Death 1200–1600. Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel, eds. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 321; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 50. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xx + 454 pp. $179.

Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy. Jessica A. Maratsos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xxi + 278 pp. $99.99.

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