15th–17th centuries
Expulsion of Jews from the Duchy of Milan, ordered by Philip II of Spain
1597·Duché de Milan
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The Duchy of Milan, a Spanish possession for several decades, was home to small communities in Crémone, Pavie, Lodi, and Alexandrie, whose Hebrew printing press in Crémone had made it a center of European Jewish book production. Philip II extended to the duchy the edict applied in his Iberian kingdoms and ordered the departure of the families.
The Jews of the duchy made their way principally to Mantoue, then under the rule of the Gonzague, as well as to Vérone and Venetian territory. Lombardy would thereafter remain without any declared Jewish presence until the Austrian reforms of the eighteenth century; the presses of Crémone, for their part, never recovered.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Expulsion
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Italie
Shlomo Simonsohn, *The Jews in the Duchy of Milan* ; Attilio Milano, *Storia degli ebrei in Italia*.