A Lifetime in Letters: New Evidence Concerning Immanuel of Rome's Timeline.
This article examines two letters written by Immanuel of Rome, the fourteenth-century poet and thinker from Italy. Using new manuscript evidence, as well as a new comparative lens, the essay challenges traditional ideas about Immanuel's timeline and intellectual affiliations. Considering a discovery...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 112; no. 3; pp. 1 - 30 |
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