@Book{182067164X, author="Grazi, Alessandro and Levi, David", title="Prophet of renewal: David Levi, a Jewish freemason and Saint-Simonian in nineteenth-century Italy", series="Studies in Jewish history and culture volume 73", year="2022", publisher="Brill", address="Leiden", keywords="Authors, Italian; Politicians; Italy; Freemasonry; Saint-Simonianism", contents="Il mistero delle tre melarancie", abstract="``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 The second part of the book presents an unpublished document, Levi's comedy ''Il Mistero delle Tre Melarancie``, a phantasmagorical adventure in search of his Jewish identity, with an English translation of its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''--", note="by Alessandro Grazi", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="9789004518995", doi="10.1163/9789004518995", url="https://brill.com/view/title/60718", url="https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9789004518988.pdf", url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004518995", language="English" }