15th–17th centuries
Marranos survivors from Ancona welcomed by the Duke of Urbino; boycott of the papal port decreed by the communities of the Levant
1557·Pesaro
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The Duke of Urbino welcomed the Marrano survivors from Ancona at Pesaro, and the Levantine communities decreed a boycott of the papal port.
Pope Paul IV had ordered the arrest of the Portuguese merchants of Ancona, who had been granted safe-conducts by his predecessors, and had some of them burned; the others fled to Pesaro. Doña Gracia Nasi, who directed from Constantinople the largest Jewish commercial house of the century, persuaded the Ottoman communities to divert their trade from Ancona to Pesaro in order to punish the pope. The boycott did not hold, for lack of agreement among the communities, but it remains the first attempt of its kind in Jewish history.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Italie
Ouvrages sur Doña Gracia Nasi et sur l'affaire d'Ancône.