TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grazi, Alessandro
AU  - Levi, David
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Prophet of renewal: David Levi, a Jewish freemason and Saint-Simonian in nineteenth-century Italy
T3  - Studies in Jewish history and culture volume 73
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Authors, Italian
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Italy
KW  - Freemasonry
KW  - Saint-Simonianism
AB  - "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 The second part of the book presents an unpublished document, Levi's comedy "Il Mistero delle Tre Melarancie", a phantasmagorical adventure in search of his Jewish identity, with an English translation of its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"--
SN  - 9789004518995
UR  - https://brill.com/view/title/60718
UR  - https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9789004518988.pdf
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004518995
DO  - 10.1163/9789004518995
LA  - English
N1  - by Alessandro Grazi
ID  - 182067164X
ER  -