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Prophet of Renewal
David Levi: a Jewish Freemason and Saint-Simonian in Nineteenth-century Italy
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Alessandro Grazi
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
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In this volume, Alessandro Grazi offers the first intellectual biography of the Italian Jewish writer and politician David Levi (1816-1898). In this intriguing journey through the mysterious rites of Freemasonry and the bizarre worldviews of Saint-Simonianism, you can discover Levi’s innovative interpretation of Judaism and its role in modernity. As a champion of dialogue with Catholic intellectuals, Levi’s importance transcends the Jewish world. The second part of the book presents an unpublished document, Levi’s comedy “Il Mistero delle Tre Melarancie”, a phantasmagorical adventure in search of his Jewish identity, with an English translation of its most relevant excerpt.
Author / Editor information
Alessandro Grazi, Ph.D. (2012), University of Groningen, is Research Associate in the Department of Religious History of the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz. He has published on Italian Judaism and Jewish/Christian relations, including the edited volume Believers in the Nation - European religious minorities in the age of nationalism (2017).
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eBook published on:
July 18, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9789004518995
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Main content:
302
eBook ISBN:
9789004518995
Keywords for this book
Secularization; Enlightenment; Italian Jewry; Risorgimento; Modern Italy; Modernity; Intellectual History; Comedy; Theater studies; Jewish Literature; Italian Literature; Nationalism; Nation-building; Jewish/Christian relations; Secret societies
Audience(s) for this book
Historians of Italian Jewry and Jewish-Christian relations in the Nineteenth century. Historians of the Risorgimento, modern Italy, European nationalisms and nation-building. Secularization historians and sociologists. Literary scholars. Experts of Freemasonry.
