Wandering Jew

Feb 24, 2007 06:31

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qoelet February 24 2007, 08:46:30 UTC
[It was not writen by a "Cohen" for sure.]
Sorry, I don't know who is "Cohen".
Maybe if you give me more information (the first name?) I could search about...

[Where, when wa this written and by whom?]
It's a secret, sorry. :P
I can write that the two, the Parisian and the Venetian, signed those words (and other words) as "Wandering Jew". You know, if I told you who are them, Inquisition could find them and it could be a problem.
But I'm glad, 'cause you give me the opportunity to explain - and write about...

[No one would dare to write about Jesus this way in 1630 without inquisition!.]
That's right.
In 1630 in Paris there was that Prime Minister - a man named Richelieu - that boring Cardinal. Do you know him? I'm sure you know him. Catholic Prime Minister.
But, you know, Inquisition inquires. Inquisition loved book burning, and I suppose that it loved heretics burning - but here there aren't books. Here there are sheets with short text, spread among bourgeois and the new aristocratic class. They like these short pamphlets, they follow the Wandering Jew as if he's the idol of the year. Obviously, we're talking about a secret. But who are the Wandering Jew?
Sorry, I don't know.
Something tells about a Young Portuguese, a new aristocratic. But it's only a supposition...
Anyone is the Wandering Jew in Paris, he must look out for Inquisition, for sure. A story isn't a story if there isn't an enemy, that's right?
I suppose that the life of the Wandering Jew is hard... And the life of the printer who, in Paris, presses those words, should be equally hard.

If you go in Venice, there's another contest.
Here we have the Inquisition, for sure - but you know, Venetians are so proud...
In 1606-07, thanks to that pride, Venice faced the Interdetto of the Pope. Venice expelled the Jesuits! Jesuits conquers the whole world with Catholicism, and Venice expels them!
What a strange city, Venice...
Full of printing houses, it's - with Netherlands - one of the cities in which you must go if you're searching for a book admitted in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Here you'll find it, for sure.
I'm not telling you that in Venice the Inquisition hasn't power.
I'm telling you that, in Venice, the Inquisitors of the Republic are most important than the Inquisitors of Pope.
Obviously, you cannot write that "Jesus is wrong". Venice is faithful. Venezia la Cattolicissima. But go and find the damned that spreads those pamphlets; go and find the printing house in which a printer prints those pamphlets.

I'm not telling you that you can write about Jesus this way and live your entire life in peace.
We need an enemy.
Or a story isn't a story.
(I cannot tell you who will be the winner. It's a secret! :P )
I'm telling you that if you're going to write the words I wrote, and you claim they have been written in 1630, you must know that era. You must know the history - of France, of Italy, of Venice, of England, of Spain and Portugal, the Thirty Years War in Palatinate, in Boemia - you must know the culture, the religion, the art, the bureaucray, the juris prudentia, the trivium and quadrivium, and what the hell a student study at University - or rather they study thanks to the Jesuits, then you have to know the theater of that era, who is San Ignacio - and the Dominicans, the better inquisitors of that era; you must know Descartes, Bruno, Wallenstein, Galilei, von Tilly, the Pope, God - the Catholic God, the Lutheran God, the Calvinist God - etc etc...

If you want, I'll go on with the question: "what the hell a man can or can't in 1630"... :P I love that era. :) I'm studying it. I'm searching for "what a man can or can't in 1630", and not only for the Inquisition. They had a lot of problems.

Obviously, that man didn't write as I wrote.
But have clemency, please, I'm learning English. This is recreational. The story I want write will be in Italian.

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nkdlife February 24 2007, 21:49:54 UTC
Your position sounds like "Plagiarism".

Anyway, FYI, Cohen are the "rabbies".

About Venice, try Shakespeare "The merchant of Venice", perfect timing and very nice play!.

Anout Richelieu, Plenty to find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95sep/richelieu.html
http://www.naples.net/~clutchey/cardinal.htm

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qoelet February 25 2007, 23:35:42 UTC
[Anyway, FYI, Cohen are the "rabbies".]
I thank you, I've learn three new things.

[It was not writen by a "Cohen" for sure.]
The authors behind the Wandering Jew aren't Jews. But obviously you didn't know this information - you cannot know a lot of things about these Wandering Jews: they're fiction. Glad to answer to your doubts - it's a chance, I can write about an era, and an idea, that I love - but I think that inquiring a short (and written by me, me and my bad English) writing is useless, because you don't know all the preambles, neither the contest (not the historical contest: the contest of this story). I would be grateful if you inquire the language.
(Btw I studied part of Jewish mystique. It's interesting, and it could be useful.)

Second answer: "It was not written by a man of XVII century for sure." :)
I'm not able to write in Old English. Anyhow, even if I write in Italian about A.D. 1630, I don't write in Old Italian: readers will be boring.

[Your position sounds like "Plagiarism".]
Plagiarism: literary thief, right? I didn't understand if you meant that I've plagiarized something, and stolen the short writing - or stolen what? - could you help me with this doubt of mine?

[Anout Richelieu, Plenty to find:]
Thanks for these links, especially the second one. I was searching for books about the detailed history of Paris around 1630, and the links help.

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