Livornina - Ferdinando I De' Medici [Document Inviting Jewish Merchants to Settle in Livorno and Pisa] - Florence, 10 June 1593

Livornina - Ferdinando I De' Medici [Document Inviting Jewish Merchants to Settle in Livorno and Pisa] - Florence, 10 June 1593

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Description: Online facsimile of MS LJS 379 (SCETI - Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image). "One of the single most important documents of early modern history, indeed-the legal foundation of Jewish tolerance in early modern Europe It is the Livornina  which granted Jews the right to settle in Livorno and give them unprecedented protections during a period of inquisition and expulsions dating from the end of the 15th century."

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