Martina Mampieri

University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

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Martina Mampieri is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a double Ph.D. in History and Jewish Studies from the University of Roma Tre and the University of Hamburg and received fellowships from the Hebrew University, the University of Oxford, Harvard University, the University of Göttingen, the American Jewish Archives and the Rothschild Foundation among others. She is the author of "Living under the Evil Pope. The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche, 16th cent. (Brill, 2020) and has published on Jewish cultural and religious history in the early modern and modern periods. She works on Jewish history and book cultures in the early modern and modern periods.

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Articles and Book Chapters by Martina Mampieri

M. Mampieri, "The Curious Case of the Jew Who Married a Buffalo: An Alleged Blood Libel in Hamburg (1687)," Cromohs (Cyber Review of Modern Historiography) 27 (2024): 76-95

Cromohs (Cyber Review of Modern Historiography) , 2024

While scrutinising chronicles and memoirs from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries preserved ... more While scrutinising chronicles and memoirs from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries preserved in Roman and Vatican archives during my doctoral research back in 2015, I came across an intriguing text, involving a trial against a Jewish man from Hamburg who, according to the account, was executed by being burned at the stake on 22 July 1687 after being charged of having murdered a Christian child to perform a kabbalistic ritual. The curious writing that came to my attention-titled Morte data ad un ebreo che si sposò con una bufala. Caso seguito in Amburgo alli 22 di luglio l'anno 1687 ('Death given to a Jew who married a buffalo. Case happened in Hamburg on 22 July 1687')is contained in a miscellaneous volume of various chronicles, accounts, newsletters, and literary productions from the library belonging to the Roman count and passionate bibliophile Francesco Maria Cardelli (1715-1778), today preserved in the Historical Archives of the City Hall of Rome (ASC). 1 While the events described in the account * This article is a revised and extended version of the papers I presented on the occasion of the 68th

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M. Mampieri, "Judeo-Italian Manuscripts," in Jewish Languages and Book Culture (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024), 139-157

Jewish Languages and Book Culture, eds. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and César Merchán-Hamann, Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024

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M. Mampieri, "Notes for a Biography: A Portrait of Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960)," Zutot. Perspectives on Jewish Culture 19 (2022): 134-143

Zutot. Perspectives on Jewish Culture 19, 2022

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M. Mampieri, "Zeh yehyeh lanu le-Zikaron. Memorie, note e appunti di ebrei italiani all'interno di alcuni libri a stampa (secc. XVI-XIX)," Materia Giudaica 26/2 (2021): 305-313

Materia Giudaica, 2021

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L. Andreoni, M. Mampieri, "«Tutta l'arte de rabini». Un caso di confisca di libri ebraici ad Ancona: controllo e conflitto (1728)," in L'Inquisizione e gli ebrei. Nuove ricerche (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021), 49-81

L'Inquisizione e gli ebrei. Nuove ricerche, ed. Marina Caffiero in collaboration with Giuseppina Minchella (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura), 2021

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M. Mampieri, "From Frankfurt to Jerusalem: Jewish Manuscripts in the Nauheim Collection at the National Library of Israel," Medaon. Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung 14 (2020), 27: 1-10

Medaon. Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, 2020

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M. Mampieri, "From Menasseh ben Israel to Solomon Proops: Amsterdam Jewish Druckwesen in the Library of Isaiah Sonne," Studia Rosenthaliana 46/1 (2020): 97-116

T. Dunkelgrün (ed.), The Jewish Bookshop of the World : Aspects of Print and Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Amsterdam To the memory of Shlomo Berger (1953-2015), 2020

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M. Mampieri, "When the Rabbi’s Soul Entered a Pig: Melchiorre Palontrotti and His Giudiata against the Jews of Rome," Jewish History 33/3-4 (2020): 351-375

Jewish History, 2020

This essay analyzes an unpublished manuscript of a giudiata, a poem mocking Jewish funerals that ... more This essay analyzes an unpublished manuscript of a giudiata, a poem mocking Jewish funerals that was written and performed in Rome in the mid-seventeenth century. Melchiorre Palontrotti, the author of the composition, was a Roman polemist and author of other published works against Italian Jews, including, among others, the Venetian rabbi Simone Luzzatto, between 1640 and 1649. After furnishing information on the author and the historical background in which the song was written, and following an analysis of the origins of giudiate and their diffusion in early modern Rome, this paper explores the content, language, and style of the giudiata text. The appendix includes a bibliography of Palontrotti’s writings and a transcription of the manuscript.

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M. Mampieri, "Elenco delle opere a stampa citate nella Relazione [di Isaiah Sonne]" (Milan: CDEC, 2020)

La tabella riportata qui di seguito si riferisce esclusivamente ai volumi a stampa descritti da S... more La tabella riportata qui di seguito si riferisce esclusivamente ai volumi a stampa descritti da Sonne nelle relazioni sul patrimonio bibliografico delle venti comunità prese in esame. In questa sede, pertanto, non si troveranno indicazioni relative ai manoscritti così come ai materiali d'archivio, ketubbot, testimonianze epigrafiche, etc. che talvolta corredano le singole relazioni. Si è inoltre deciso di trascrivere quanto più fedelmente possibile le informazioni bibliografiche circa le edizioni riportate da Sonne. Eventuali modifiche e integrazioni sono segnalate nella tabella all'interno delle parentesi quadre. I nomi di persona e i titoli delle opere in ebraico seguono i criteri di traslitterazione scientifica come in Encyclopaedia Judaica, seconda edizione, vol. 1, p. 197 (ma la yod è trasliterrata sia con y che con j).

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M. Mampieri, "Isaiah Sonne, 1887-1960," in Il patrimonio archivistico e bibliografico delle Comunità israelitiche italiane. Ovvero, la Relazione di Isaia Sonne. Note a margine, ed. Stefania Roncolato (Milan: CDEC, 2020), 4-6

ri)scoperta dei tesori dimenticati. Note a margine e percorsi di ricerca su storia e società ebra... more ri)scoperta dei tesori dimenticati. Note a margine e percorsi di ricerca su storia e società ebraica a partire dalla Relazione di Isaia Sonne p. 24 Ariel Viterbo «Una miniera di materiale storico e una carta di nobiltà». La Relazione di Isaia Sonne nelle collezioni della Biblioteca Nazionale dʼIsraele. Breve storia di un fondo p. 30

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M. Mampieri, "Sara, Smeralda, Stella e le altre. Note sulla presenza ebraica femminile a Civitanova Marche negli anni centrali del Cinquecento," Proposte e Ricerche 80 (2018): 109-123

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M. Mampieri, "The Jews and Their Doubts: Anti-Jewish Polemics in the Fascicolo delle vanità giudaiche (1583) by Antonino Stabili", Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 1 (2016): 59-75

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M. Mampieri, "Aspettando il Messia: cronaca e metastoria nel Sefer Yuḥasin di Abraham Zacuto (1452-1515 ca.)", Giornale di Storia 18 (2015)

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Book Reviews by Martina Mampieri

Review of Susan L. Einbinder, Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), in Renaissance Quarterly 78/2 (2025): 658-660

Renaissance Quarterly, 2025

Ariadne, Niobe, Byblis, and Apollo. According to Migiel, the destabilization of these evocations ... more Ariadne, Niobe, Byblis, and Apollo. According to Migiel, the destabilization of these evocations presents interstitial spaces in which subject positions become overlaid with one another such that "she is like Orpheus and not like him; she is both an active agent and a subject who is acted upon" (50). She posits that it is precisely from these ambiguities that the force of Veronica Franco's power comes into being. Migiel is at her best when she engages in an analysis of the prosody of both sets of poetic exchanges. Her philological methodology enriches her reading of Franco's ability to contrast her poetic identity against her male addressee, to whom she grants no less sustained attention than she does to Franco herself. In chapter 5, "Seductive Insinuation and Obliquely Frank Refusal: Terze rime 9 and 10," Migiel shows how the male author seeks to possess Franco by insinuating himself into her interior space through his metrically unsettling enjambment and his willingness to break the versification rules of the day. She speculates that "a man willing to break with expectations about versification is a man who might well break other boundaries" (101). Franco capitalizes on his metrical and poetic failures by turning his verses against him in sets of binary oppositions that highlight the tension of obliqueness and frankness that she deploys in order to manage her persistent lover. Migiel concludes the monograph where she begins, by asking what we truly see in Veronica Franco's poetry-a question that she answers: "by beginning her Terze rime with the dialogic poems, Franco creates a foil against which she can craft her image of herself as neither condescending or haughty but still the equal or better than most of her male interlocutors" (164). Migiel has demonstrated that a deeper and more reflective exploration of Franco's poetry yields a more complex narrative of the woman who has been labeled a feminist of her age. What truly remains is a figure whose often tentative and indirect responses reveal a woman who was an astute judge of character as well as of her times.

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"L'économie de la conversion," Review of Isabelle Poutrin, Les convertis du pape. Une famille de banquiers juifs à Rome au XVIe siècle (Paris: Seuil, 2023), in La Vie des idées, January 13, 2025

La Vie des idées

Quelles sont les conséquences économiques des conversions dans la Rome de la première modernité ?... more Quelles sont les conséquences économiques des conversions dans la Rome de la première modernité ? Le destin d'une famille juive de l'élite éclaire la question des conversions au catholicisme, et les changements de statut social consécutifs le baptême. À propos de : Isabelle Poutrin, Les convertis du pape. Une famille de banquiers juifs à Rome au XVIe siècle, Paris, Seuil, 2023, 336 p., 24 €. À travers son examen des vies de Salamone et Lazzaro Corcos, banquiers sépharades baptisés -devenus Ugo et Gregorio Boncompagni -, et de l'ensemble de leur famille, incluant fils, neveux, nièces et petits-enfants, Isabelle Poutrin propose un éclairage original et novateur sur les conversions volontaires autant que forcées, en explorant leurs répercussions économiques, entre poursuite de certains avantages et inconvénients familiaux. Le livre d'Isabelle Poutrin reconstitue la richesse de la société baroque romaine et offre un tableau vivace et nuancé de son tissu social complexe. L'autrice redonne vie, avec maîtrise, à un ensemble très divers de personnages, non seulement en restituant leurs parcours individuels mais aussi les forces socio-politiques autant que religieuses s'exerçant sur leur expérience quotidienne.

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Review of Barbara E. Mann, The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022), in Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 25/1 (2024): 214-216

Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2024

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Review of Emily Michelson, Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), in Annali d’Italianistica 41 (2023): 702-704

Annali d'Italianistica 41, 2023

Responsible for Jewish Studies ANNALI D'ITALIANISTICA 41 (2023) 474 OPEN FORUM Dante's Journey to... more Responsible for Jewish Studies ANNALI D'ITALIANISTICA 41 (2023) 474 OPEN FORUM Dante's Journey to the Logos: Silences, Names, and Words in the Commedia.

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Review of Roberto Fiorentini, Livio Odescalchi, nipote di Innocenzo XI. Interessi famigliari e strategie di ascesa nella stagione dell'antinepotismo, ed. Marco Albertoni (Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press, 2022 = Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe), in Giornale di Storia 40 (2022)

Giornale di Storia 40, 2022

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Review of Serena Di Nepi (ed.), Storie intrecciate. Cristiani, ebrei e musulmani tra scritture, oggetti e narrazioni, Mediterraneo, secc. XVI-XIX, (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2015), in Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 82/1 (2016): 493-95

Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 82/1, 2016

Recensioni / Reviews 493 delle religioni non sempre correttamente o sufficientemente applicati ag... more Recensioni / Reviews 493 delle religioni non sempre correttamente o sufficientemente applicati agli studi sullo zoroastrismo. Pur tuttavia, in questo quadro sostanzialmente positivo una maggiore attenzione filologica avrebbe giovato al risultato finale.

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M. Mampieri, "Morto un papa se ne fa un altro. Note a margine del volume di John M. Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome. A Social History of the Papal Interregnum (Brill, 2016)," Giornale di Storia 22 (2016)

Giornale di Storia 22, 2016

La fine di un pontificato costituisce sempre un nodo cruciale sia per il mondo cattolico che per ... more La fine di un pontificato costituisce sempre un nodo cruciale sia per il mondo cattolico che per la società civile. Incertezze e preoccupazioni si fondono ad aspettative e speranze circa la scelta del futuro papa e, quindi, dell'avvenire di Santa Romana Chiesa.

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