Event

Speaker:  Fabrizio Lelli - University of Lecce and currently a University of Pennsylvania Katz Center fellow

In my talk I would like to focus on the synthesis between philosophical speculation and Kabbalistic thought, which characterized the scholarly production of Jewish intellectuals active in early sixteenth-century Italy. After a rapid overview of the reasons that induced Jewish authors to investigate their own traditions according to classical sources that were revived by contemporary non-Jewish scholars, I will center my talk on Leone Ebreo's Dialogues on Love and will try to evince some of the philosopher's views which, in my opinion, can be better understood against the background of contemporary Florentine Neoplatonic trends of thought.