A Gerusalemme e ritorno (forse). Resoconti ebraici di viaggio verso Ereṣ Yiśra’el dalla tarda antichità al Rinascimento

This study examines various Hebrew accounts of travels to the Land of Israel (for religious, commercial, and permanent immigration purposes) from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance (Sefer Eldad ha-Dani, Binyamin of Tudela, Petaḥyah of Regensburg, Mešullam of Volterra, ‘Ovadyah of Bertinoro, Mošeh Basola) and follows the gradual emergence of an intellectually detached, quasi-skeptical attitude towards the midrashic and folkloric tradition and the use of indirect sources. This attitude culminated in a classic of Renaissance Jewish historiography such as ‘Azaryah de’ Rossi’s "The Light of the Eyes".