Jewish and Christian Awareness
Jewish and Christian Awareness
This chapter describes how the Jews of Rome were perfectly aware of the forces that governed their existence. Accordingly, when legal, spiritual, cultural, and social distinctions of persons were removed under Napoleonic rule, the Jews hastened to respond optimistically. However, the Jews did not need to await Napoleonic liberation to appreciate how contradictory and absurd had been their condition. Scholars such as Giovanni Battista de Luca, Carlo Luti, and Giuseppe Sessa openly questioned, or were at least uneasy about, the paradox of Jews being simultaneously cives yet still denied full civic rights. The persona of Anna del Monte as Tranquillo fashioned it is that of “a figure on the seam.” Anna's story encapsulates the winds of the past, but it was no less a prologue to a sometimes precarious future.
Keywords: Roman Jews, Napoleonic rule, Battista de Luca, Carlo Luti, Giuseppe Sessa, civic rights, Anna del Monte, Tranquillo del Monte
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