(ANTISEMITICA).
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 25
(ANTISEMITICA).
Venice: Girolamo Bragadin 1659
Est: $600 - $800
PRICE REALIZED $600
Giovanni Maria Vincenti, a cleric born in Venice, mounts the usual missionary arguments seeking to prove the verity of Christianity from Judaic sources. As an afterthought, the author calls for the expulsion of the Jews from the Venetian state. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the threat of expulsion was held over the heads of Venetian Jewry as a Damocles’ sword. See EJ, Vol. XVI, col. 96.
The book abounds in theological mistakes, for which it was criticized by Giulio Bartolocci and others. Eventually, on June 18th, 1680, it was listed on the Church’s Index of Proscribed Books. For this reason, it has become rare