Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729
Lodovico Furlanetto
ca. 1729
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto was the first to be established in Italy but eventually all Jews in Italy were forced to live in enclosed and/or separate areas within cities and towns. By the mid-sixteenth century, the Jewish population of Venice numbered around three thousand. The city was the home of renowned rabbis, Jewish scholars, and doctors and was also a center of Jewish publishing.
Credits
Lodovico Furlanetto, “Nuoua pianta eleuata della nobile e cospicua citta di Venezia,” Map, 1729. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library. https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:4m90f848c.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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