Francesca Trivellato
Books by Francesca Trivellato
The Familiarity of Strangers
by Francesca Trivellato
I find this book inspirational because her Sephardic merchants’ cross-cultural trade co-existed quite easily with the religious prejudices of the time. I think there is often this idea that if people trade with each other they become friends and if societies are less cosmopolitan then there are automatically higher levels of religious tolerance. She shows that both can exist.
Interviews where books by Francesca Trivellato were recommended
The best books on Chaos in the 17th-Century Mediterranean, recommended by Molly Greene
Princeton professor of Hellenic studies says the 17th-century Mediterranean is fascinating because it was a time when nobody was in charge. And yet, it was possible to have “order without law”
