TY - BOOK ID - 137316751 TI - A convert's tale : art, crime, and Jewish apostasy in Renaissance Italy PY - 2019 SN - 0674242564 0674242556 0674237536 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Christian converts from Judaism KW - Goldsmiths KW - Art patronage KW - History KW - History. KW - Fedeli, Ercole dei, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137316751 AB - Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion. ER -