Renaissance Discoveries: The Venetian Ghetto

inwards this video we displace to Venice to appear at ane of the innovations and legacies of the Italian Renaissance that’s less admirable and enviable than many of the others inwards this series. We appear at how Italian cities, above all Venice, dealt with their Jewish populations. inwards 1516 a Venetian politician named Zaccaria Dolfin advocated restricting the Jewish community—many of whose members were refugees fleeing war—to an island that had in ane case served as the dumping ground for an atomic number 26 foundry. His proposal passed through the Venetian Senate, and for much of the next three centuries Venice’s Jews lived inwards the Ghetto, a word the Venetians gave to the world. This video follows the history of the Jews inwards Venice, covers the circumstances behind their confinement, and looks at what life was similar inwards the Ghetto.