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Discorso circa il stato de gl’Hebrei et in particolar dimoranti nell’inclita Città di Venetia (Discourse Concerning the Condition of the Jews, and in Particular Those Living in the Illustrious City of Venice): On Jewish Commerce

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The Hebrews have been taught and instructed more than any other nation in the school of hardship under the rigorous discipline of that necessity, because they are deprived of real estate, forbidden…

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Simone Luzzatto

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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1638

Subjects:

Cities, Economic life, Travel, Community, Antisemitism

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History, Political Culture, Reportage

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I record how, in the year 1625, the Grand Duke came to Sienna, and Messer Abraham Pesaro and Messer Buonaventura Gallichi were appointed to collect the levy. From me, they demanded a pair of sheets, a…

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Joseph of Siena

Places:

Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Siena, Italy)

Date:

1625–1633

Subjects:

Economic life, Antisemitism, Justice system, Finance, Punishment

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries

Jewish Merchant (Mercante Giudeo)

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This depiction of a Jewish merchant is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also done his own illustrations. Considered at the time a key source of…

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Nicolas de Nicolay

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1585

Subjects:

Print, Dress, Class, Economic life, Ethnography

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art

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