(ANTISEMITICA).

Girolamo Bragadin

Venice

1659

Vincenti, Giovanni Maria. Il Messia venuto. Historia spiegata, e provata a gli Hebrei in cento discorsi. Opera non solamente necessaria a gli Hebrei, ma molto utile a’ Cristiani, e massime a’ Predicatori. Confermandosi in essa con eruditione sacra profana, e traditione Hebrea la verità de’ misteri tutti della Cristiana fede…Con l’Aggiunta di un Trattato dell’Autore intorno la famosa questione. Se meglio sia, che i Principi Cristiani permettano ne’ loro Stati gli hebrei, o li discaccino. [“The Messiah has come…With the addition of a treatise by the author discussing the famous question whether Christian rulers should permit Hebrews in their State or expel them]

Parente, Italia Judaica I, pp. 338-9

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