Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Case of Avraham Portaleone, the Repentant Scientist -- 3: Allegorical Space and Geometrical Space: Representations of the Temple of Jerusalem in the Works of Italian Jewish Authors -- 4: The Myth of Politics in the Jewish Communities of the Italian City-States -- 5: A Link to Humanity: Judaism as Nation and Universal Religion -- 6: The Italian and Latin Works of Lazzaro da Viterbo, Sixteenth-Century Jewish Humanist -- 7: Leone Modena's Magen we-ḥerev as an Anti-Catholic Apologia -- 8: The Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World -- 9: Kabbalah and Rationalism in the Works of Mosheh Ḥayyim Luzzatto and some Kabbalists of his time -- Notes -- Index…”