A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History)

A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History)An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and converted to Catholicism. In 1491 the renowned goldsmith Salomone da Sesso converted to Catholicism. Born in the mid fifteenth century to a Jewish family in Florence, Salomone later settled in Ferrara, where he was regarded as a virtuoso artist whose