Journal

Emanuele Levi is known to us through his precocious diary, written during the Restoration period of early nineteenth-century Italy. For a year and a half, Emanuele wrote about life as he experienced it in Asti, where he was sent at age eleven to attend the Jewish school. The diary was written in a copybook, reviewed by his tutor Lazzaro Artom, and forwarded each week to Emanuele’s parents.