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October 25, 2023

The Controversial Career of Dante’s Jewish Imitator

Immanuel of Rome.

The 16th-century code of Jewish law known as the Shulhan Arukh states that on the Sabbath one should not read “profane belles lettres or fables” such as the “book of Immanuel.” Indeed, it adds, one should not read such a book even during the weekdays, since it contains frivolity and divrey ḥeshek, apparently a reference to erotic content.

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