Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Opening Remarks -- The Escape from Vasto, Complaints of a 15th-Century Rabbi -- Fortune and Providence: A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter With Renaissance Culture -- Jews and the Grain, Oil and Wine Trades in 15th- and 16th-Century Apulia -- Jewish Book Collection and Patronage in Renaissance Italy -- Joseph Ha-Cohen and His Negative Attitude Toward R. Meir Katzenellenbogen (Maharam Padova) -- Re-creating Creation in the Early Italian Yozer: Between Tradition and Innovation -- The Type of Community Minute Books-Some Preliminary Conclusions -- Again on the Mobility of Italian Jews Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Towards Jewish Emancipation in the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany: The Case of Pitigliano Through the Emblematic Figure of David Consiglio -- The Material Context of 15th-Century Hebrew Florentine Manuscripts: A Source of Information on Production, Ownership and Control of Hebrew Books in Their Christian Environment -- Italy, the "Breadbasket" of Hebrew Manuscripts -- Rhymes To Sing and Rhymes To Hang Up: Some Remarks on a Lampoon in Yiddish By Elye Bokher (Venice 1514) -- A Matter of Quotation: Dante and the Literary Identity of Jews in Italy -- From Sicily to Rome: The Cultural Route of Michele Zumat, Physician and Rabbi in the 16th Century -- The Angevins of Naples and the Jews -- International Trade and Italian Jews at the Turn of the Middle Ages -- The Conservation of History: The Archives of the Jewish Communities in the Veneto -- The Jewish Presence in Sicily as Reflected in Medieval Sicilian Historiography -- Index of Names -- Index of Geographical Terms.