@Book{1611252954,
author="Idel, Mosheh",
title="Kabbalah in Italy 1280-1510: a survey",
year="2011",
publisher="Yale University Press",
address="New Haven, Conn.",
keywords="Cabala; Italy; History; Mysticism; Judaism; Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-ca. 1292; Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 13th/14th cent; CabalaItalyHistory; MysticismJudaismHistory",
contents="Kabbalah : introductory remarks -- Abraham Abulafia and ecstatic kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia's activity in Italy -- Ecstatic kabbalah as an experiential lore -- Abraham Abulafia's hermeneutics -- Eschatological themes and divine names in Abulafia's kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin : thirteenth-century kabbalistic and Ashkenazi manuscripts in italy -- R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -- Menahem Recanati as a theosophical-theurgical kabbalist -- Menahem Recanati's hermeneutics -- Ecstatic kabbalah from the fourteenth through mid-fifteenth centuries -- The kabbalistic-philosophical-magical exchanges in Italy -- Prisca theologia : R. Isaac Abravanel, Leone Ebreo, and R. Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano -- R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -- Jewish mystical thought in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence -- Other mystical and magical literatures in Renaissance Florence -- Spanish kabbalists in Italy after the expulsion -- Diverging types of kabbalah in late-fifteenth-century Italy -- Jewish kabbalah in Christian garb -- Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -- Astromagical pneumatic anthropoids from medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -- The trajectory of eastern kabbalah and its reverberations in Italy -- Concluding remarks.",
abstract="``The following survey of Kabbalah in Italy was inspired by a series of lectures I delivered at the opening of the Avraham Goldstein-Goren Center of Jewish Studies at the Universit{\`a} degli Studi in Milan in the winter of 1998'' -- p. ix",
note="Moshe Idel",
note="Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="0300126263",
language="English"
}