Cultural Intermediaries

Introduction
—David Ruderman

1. Biography and Autobiography in Yohanan Alemanno's Literary Perception
—Fabrizio Lelli
2. Elijah Delmedigo: An Archetype of the Halakhic Man?
—Harvey Hames
3. Philo and Sophia: Leone Ebreo's Concept of Jewish Philosophy
—Giuseppe Veltri
4. Joseph ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio and Sixteenth-Century Historiography
—Martin Jacobs
5. Religious Life and Jewish Erudition in Pisa: Yehiel Nissim da Pisa and the Crisis of Aristotelianism
—Alessandro Guetta
6. The Beautiful Soul: Azariah de' Rossi's Search for Truth
—Joanna Weinberg
7. The Teaching Program of David ben Abraham and His Son Abraham Provenzali in Its Historical-Cultural Context
—Gianfranco Miletto
8. Judah Moscato's Scholarly Self-Image and the Question of Jewish Humanism
—Adam Shear
9. As Framed, So Perceived: Salamone Rossi ebreo, Late Renaissance Musician
—Don Harrán
10. Amatus Lusitanus and the Location of Sixteenth-Century Cultures
—Eleazar Gutwirth
11. Italy in Safed, Safed in Italy: Toward an Interactive History of Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah
—Moshe Idel
12. A Bibliography of Jewish Cultural History in the Early Modern Period
—Giuseppe Veltri

List of Contributors
Index