Maps
1 Map of the principal Jewish communities in the Papal States (1555). Credit: Michaël Gasperoni. 8
2 Map of the Marca in the sixteenth century by Vincenzo Luchino, La Marca d’Ancona (Rome, 1564). Courtesy of the Cartoteca Storica delle Marche, Serra San Quirico. 9
3 Civitas-Nova, ou Cittanova. Ville de l’Etat de l’Eglise, dans la Marché d’Ancone. Map of Civitanova Marche by Joan Bleau printed by Pierre Mortier in Nouveau theatre d’Italie (Amsterdam, 1704). Courtesy of the Cartoteca Storica delle Marche, Serra San Quirico. 10
4 Viaggio da Ancona a Roma. Map of the Via Lauretana by Giuseppe Zagnoni printed in his Direzioni pe’ viaggiatori in Italia, colle notizie di tutte le poste e loro prezzi (Bologna, 1790). The places depicted on the map are Ancona, Camerano, Loreto, Sambucheto, Macerata, Tolentino, Valcimarra, Trave, Seravalle, Case Nuove, Foligno, Vene, Spoleto, Strettura, Terni, Narni, Otricoli, Borghetto, Civita Castellana, Rignano, Castelnuovo, Borghettaccio, Prima Porta, and Rome. Courtesy of the Cartoteca Storica delle Marche, Serra San Quirico. 11
5 Route of the Jews’ arrest following the narrative of events as recorded in the chronicle by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan. The cities encountered between Civitanova and Rome were Macerata, Camerino, Sostino, Foligno, Spoleto, Terni, Narni, Borghetto, Civita Castellana, and Castelnuovo di Porto. Credit: Michaël Gasperoni. 11
Plates
1 Giulio Bonasone, engraving of Pope Marcellus II (ca. 1555). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1922. 189
2 Nicolas Beatrizet, engraving of Pope Paul IV (ca. 1530–66). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Elisha Whittelsey Collection, Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. 190
3 Philippe Soye, engraving of Pope Paul IV, in Onofrio Panvinio, XXVII Pontificum Maximorum Elogia et Imagines (Rome, 1568). 191
4 Anonymous engraving of Pope Paul IV, in Antonio Caracciolo, De vita Pauli Quarti Pont. Max., (Cologne, 1612). Courtesy of the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame. 192
5 Nicolas Beatrizet, engraving of Pope Pius IV (mid-16th century). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925. 193
6 El Greco, portrait of Pope Pius V, oil on canvas (ca. 1600–10). Private collection, Paris. Source: The Yorck Project (2002), 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. 194
7 Entrance to the old Jewish quarter in Vicolo della Luna, Civitanova Marche. Photo: Martina Mampieri. 195
8 Detail of the commemorative plaque installed on January 27, 2014, bearing the words “this was once the Jewish ghetto of Civitanova Marche.” Photo: Martina Mampieri. 196
9 House of the poet and humanist Annibal Caro, today the location of the Archivio Storico Comunale di Civitanova Marche, Civitanova Alta. Photo: Martina Mampieri. 197
10 Panoramic view over the Chienti valley. Photo: Martina Mampieri. 198
11 Giovan Battista Piranesi, etching, Tavola di intestazione, Carceri d’invenzione, second edition (1761). Open Access image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: M. Johnston). 199
12 Giovan Battista Piranesi, etching, Il molo con le catene, Carceri d’invenzione, second edition (1761). Open Access image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: M. Johnston). 200
13 Engraving of the statue of Paul IV made by Vincenzo de’ Rossi. Tavola CLXII, in Paolo Alessandro Maffei and Domenico de Rossi, Raccolta di statue antiche e moderne data in luce sotto i gloriosi auspicj di N.S. Papa Clemente XI (Rome, 1742). 201
14 Engraving of the sculptural group representing Menelaus supporting the dying Patroclus, known as the talking statue of Pasquino. Attributed to Nicolas Beatrizet, printed in Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Rome, 1542–60). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library, 1941. 202
15 Portrait of Siegmund Nauheim (1874–1935). Etching by Jakob Nussbaum, 1929. Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. Courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt. 203
16 Portrait of Isaiah Sonne (1887–1960), in Isaiah Sonne Memorial Volume. Studies and Texts on the History of Jewish Communities in the East, eds. Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and Meir Benayahu (Jerusalem, 1961). Courtesy of the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem. 204