CHAPTER 3. Daniel van Bombergen, a Bookman of Two Worlds

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION. Book History and the Hebrew Book in Italy 1
4. CHAPTER 1. Can Colophons Be Trusted? Insights from Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts Produced for Women in Renaissance Italy 17
5. CHAPTER 2. Marchion in Hebrew Manuscripts: State Censorship in Florence, 1472 26
6. CHAPTER 3. Daniel van Bombergen, a Bookman of Two Worlds 56
7. CHAPTER 4. The Rabbinic Bible in Its Sixteenth-Century Context 76
8. CHAPTER 5. Sixteenth-Century Jewish Internal Censorship of Hebrew Books 109
9. CHAPTER 6. Robert Bellarmine Reads Rashi: Rabbinic Bible Commentaries and the Burning of the Talmud 121
10. CHAPTER 7. Dangerous Readings in Early Modern Modena: Negotiating Jewish Culture in an Italian Key 133
11. CHAPTER 8. The Printing of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Prayer Books Printed for the Shomrim la-Boker Confraternities 156
12. CHAPTER 9. Hebrew Printing in Eighteenth-Century Livorno: From Government Control to a Free Market 171
13. NOTES 197
14. CONTRIBUTORS 309
15. INDEX 313
16. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 325