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Very interesting paper manuscript on the rules of civil and commercial coexistence established for the Jews in Mantua, 7 pages, 310 x 210 mm. written by a single hand datable to 1579 "VI Idus Iulius".
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AN EXTRAORDINARY SLIDESHOW OF JEWISH LIFE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, REGULATED TO ENSURE THE PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE IN MANTUA OF ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST LARGE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ITALY
"That these Jews may stay and live in this our city and Dominion, holding their synagogues and celebrating their rites and ceremonies, as they have done up to the present, observing however that which is contained in the proclamation regarding the habitations published on the first of March 1576." Thus begins the document, where the practical rules for civil cohabitation are reviewed: the first rule for shopkeepers and rag-and-bone men concerns the purchase of foreign woollen cloth; the prohibition to "buy goods of any kind from Christian children...under the age of fourteen"; the express prohibition to "admit into the house where he lives, neither by day nor by night, any Christian woman except in case of necessity due to childbirth...".
The rest of the cases examined are long and detailed, practical life situations that were supposed to regulate the civil and peaceful coexistence between the Jewish community of Mantua (among the oldest and largest in Italy, at the time) and the rest of the citizens. Always, however, in respect of mutual guarantees and freedom, as is expressly declared at the end: That said Jews be as free and secure in their businesses and artifices in the said city and our Dominion as the Christians and as they have been up to the present, nor are they required to pay anything else..."
In compliance with the rules given to each other, the two communities had to and could live peacefully, then as in the future. A sign of great civil openness and coexistence, more relevant than ever today.
"That these Jews may stay and live in this our city and Dominion, holding their synagogues and celebrating their rites and ceremonies, as they have done up to the present, observing however that which is contained in the proclamation regarding the habitations published on the first of March 1576." Thus begins the document, where the practical rules for civil cohabitation are reviewed: the first rule for shopkeepers and rag-and-bone men concerns the purchase of foreign woollen cloth; the prohibition to "buy goods of any kind from Christian children...under the age of fourteen"; the express prohibition to "admit into the house where he lives, neither by day nor by night, any Christian woman except in case of necessity due to childbirth...".
The rest of the cases examined are long and detailed, practical life situations that were supposed to regulate the civil and peaceful coexistence between the Jewish community of Mantua (among the oldest and largest in Italy, at the time) and the rest of the citizens. Always, however, in respect of mutual guarantees and freedom, as is expressly declared at the end: That said Jews be as free and secure in their businesses and artifices in the said city and our Dominion as the Christians and as they have been up to the present, nor are they required to pay anything else..."
In compliance with the rules given to each other, the two communities had to and could live peacefully, then as in the future. A sign of great civil openness and coexistence, more relevant than ever today.
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