Below is a bibliography of books, articles, and links related to Kaborycha’s lecture “The Grand Duke and the Merchant of Pisa: Ferdinando I’s Relations with the Jews of Tuscany”

Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna: dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione, (Rome: Carocci editore, 2014)

Lucia Frattarelli Fischer, “Gli ebrei, il principe e l’Inquisizione,” in L’Inquisizione e gli ebrei in Italia ed. Luzzati (Rome-Bari: Laterza, 1994), 217-231.

Lucia Frattarelli Fischer and Stefano Villani, “ ‘People of every mixture’. Immigration, Tolerance and Religious Conflicts in Early Modern Livorno,” in Immigration and Emigration in Historical Perspective, ed. Ann Katherine Isaacs, (Pisa: PLUS-Pisa Univ. Press, 2007), 93-107.

Edward L. Goldberg, Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011)

Jonathan I. Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750 (Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985)

Benjamin Kaplan, Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe, (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2007)

Ebrei e nuovi cristiani fra due Inquisizioni: Il Sant’Uffizio di Venezia e quello di Pisa in L’ inquisizione e gli Ebrei in Italia, ed. Michele Luzzati,  Bari: Laterza 1994)

Lisa Kaborycha, ” ‘We do not sell them tolerance’ Grand Duke Ferdinando I’s Protection of Jews in Tuscany: the Case of Jacob Esperiel,” in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.49, no. 4, Winter, 2018.

Stephanie Nadalo, “Populating a ‘Nest of Pirates, Murtherers, Etc.’: Tuscan Immigration Policy and Ragion di Stato in the Free Port of Livorno,” in Religious Diasporas in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile, (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014)

Brian S. Pullan, The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550-1670, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983)

Benjamin Ravid, “A Tale of Three Cities and their Raison d’Etat: Ancona, Venice, Livorno, and the Competition For Jewish Merchants in the Sixteenth Century,” in Jews, Christians, and Muslims In The Mediterranean World After 1492, ed. Alisa Meyuhas Ginio, (London; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass, 1992)

Cecil Roth, A Short History of the Jewish People 1600 B.C.—A. D. 1935. (London: Macmillan, 1936)

The World History of the Jewish People, 2nd ser., Medieval Period, Vol II: ed. Cecil Roth, The Dark Ages: The Jews in Christian Europe. (Tel Aviv: Jewish History Publications Ltd.; [New Brunswick]: Rutgers University Press, 1963-64)

Stuart B. Schwartz, All can be saved: religious tolerance and salvation in the Iberian Atlantic world, New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2008)

Renata Segre, “Sephardic Settlements in Sixteenth-Century Italy: A historical and Geographical Survey,” in Jews, Christians, and Muslims In The Mediterranean World After 1492, ed. Alisa Meyuhas Ginio (London; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass, 1992)

Kenneth R. Stow, Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy, 1555-1593, (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977)

Renzo Toaff,  La nazione ebrea a Livorno e a Pisa (1591-1700) (Florence: Olschki, 1990)

Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)

Stefano Villani, “Religious Pluralism and the Danger of Tolerance: The English Nation in Livorno in the Seventeenth Century,” in F. Barbierato, A. Veronese (eds), Late Medieval and Early Modern Religious Dissents: Conflicts and Plurality in Renaissance Europe,(Pisa: Edizioni Il Campano Arnus Univ. Books, 2012), 100-101.

LINKS

Livornine Laws on “Leghorn Merchant Networks

Medici Archive Project Eugene Grant Jewish History Program