4 février 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Marianna D. Birnbaum, « Chapter 1. Introducing the family », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.j0rvo1
This book is about Señora Gracia Mendes (Luna), the wealthy sixteenth-century widow of Portuguese origin who, for many decades, while a practicing Christian, remained a secret Jew. Her career and that of her family spanned the map of Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to Italy (where she later openly embraced Judaism) to Turkey and to Ottoman-ruled Palestine. Part of Gracia’s family arrived in the mid-1490s in Portugal, where she was born in 1510 and where, at the age of eighteen, she married...