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Sarra Copia Sulam
A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice
Lynn Lara Westwater (Author)
9781487505837
Hardback, published 20 December 2019
384 pages, 22 b&w illustrations
23.5 x 16.5 x 3.2 cm, 0.71 kg
"This is an important contribution to early modern studies that sheds light on a Jewish woman actively engaged in the literary and publishing world of seventeenth-century Venice."
For nearly a decade at the height of the Counter-Reformation in Italy, the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam (ca. 1592–1641) hosted a literary salon at her house in the Venetian ghetto, providing one of the most public and enduring forums for Jewish-Christian interaction in early modern Venice. Though Copia Sulam built a powerful intellectual network, published a popular work on the immortality of the soul, and gained fame for her erudition, her literary career foundered under the weight of slanderous charges against her sexual, professional, and religious integrity. This first biography of Copia Sulam examines the explosive relationship between gender, religion, and the press in seventeenth-century Venice through a study of the salonnière’s literary career. The backdrop to this inquiry is Venice’s tumultuous religious, cultural, and political climate and the competitive world of its presses, where men and women, Christians and Jews, alternately collaborated and clashed as they sought to gain a foothold in Europe’s most prestigious publishing capital.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Birth of a Salon (1618–21) Biographical Note
Dramatis Personae
Timeline
Note on the Text
2. A Rupture in the Salon (1619–21)
3. The Salon and the Venetian Presses (1621)
4. Copia Sulam Compromised (1622–23)
5. Friends and Enemies (1621–26)
6. The Salon’s Afterlife (post 1626)
Appendix
Bibliography