By Sarra Copia Sulam, Don Harrán
The first Jewish lady to go away her mark as a author and highbrow, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?–41) used to be doubly tainted within the eyes of early glossy society via her faith and her gender. This awesome lady, who beforehand has been particularly overlooked through sleek scholarship, used to be a distinct determine in Italian cultural existence, beginning her domestic, within the Venetian ghetto, to Jews and Christians alike as a literary salon.
For this bilingual variation, Don Harrán has accrued all of Sulam’s formerly scattered writings—letters, sonnets, a Manifesto—into a unmarried quantity. Harrán has additionally assembled all extant correspondence and poetry that used to be addressed to Sulam, in addition to all recognized modern references to her, making them on hand to Anglophone readers for the 1st time. that includes wealthy biographical and ancient notes that position Sulam in her cultural context, this quantity will supply readers with perception into the idea and creativity of a lady who dared to specific herself within the male-dominated, overwhelmingly Catholic Venice of her time.
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Anit shel Yehudei ezor Venetsya be-reshit ha-me a ha-16” [Profile of the Hebrew and spiritual character of the Jews of the Venetian area at the beginning of the sixteenth century]. 16. Some of them Italian by birth, though residing abroad, as for example Gregorio Leti (see below). 17. I am grateful to the Folger Shakespeare Library, where as Fellow in 1998 I examined the literature cited below. ” 18. ’ ” 19. To which a third and final plot was added in 1633 at the request of the merchants. 7 1 23 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Figure 2.
1, 5. 65, 77, 99. 65. “Notices from Parnassus,” 5r, 7r, 8r, 11r, 52v, 73r–v. 66. His spellings were giovene and giovenetta. Laura is thought to have been born in 1310 and Petrarch to have first seen her in 1327, the year he began his Canzoniere. See there, nos. 30:1 (“giovene donna”), 121:1 (“giovenetta donna”), and 127, stanza 2:8 (“la bella giovenetta, ch’ora è donna”). ” He confirms what was intimated in the necrological records from 1641: having died at “about forty years old,” Copia must, if reason stands on our side, have been born in 1600–1601.
34. Audeber, Le voyage, 125–26. 35. , 126. 36. Leti, L’Italia regnante, 1:169. 37. Richard Lassels, The Voyage of Italy: or, A Compleat Journey through Italy (1686), 2:14. 38. Leti, L’Italia regnante, 1:163. 39. Francis Mortoft, His Book; Being His Travels through France and Italy, 1658–1659, 137. See also Lassels, The Voyage of Italy, 2:119–20. 11 12 Vo l u m e E d i t o r ’s I n t r o d u c t i o n down, but he found it impossible. ” He appears to be describing the nasal gurgle of the character ayin or the throaty gargle of the character het.
