The Influence of Humanist Culture on Sephardi Scholars Active in Medieval Italy

The Influence of Humanist Culture on Sephardi Scholars Active in Medieval Italy

Lecture by Fabrizio Lelli (University of Leece)

Given at UCLA on May 13, 2014

This talk will set the context by introducing three generations of the Iberian Shohams, a late 14th-mid-15th century Sephardic family moving from Sicily to Apulia and Calabria.

See also Fabrizio Lelli’s talks on Scholarly Families of Sephardic Origin in Early Renaissance Italy: The Ibn Shoham Family and Their Cultural Legacy and Reshaping 16th Century Sephardi Identities.