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Jews who stayed in Venice for more than two weeks were supposed to wear a yellow "O" on their backs or a yellow hat.
And they were confined to a special area which became known as the Ghetto Nuovo.
This is the entrance to the Jewish ghetto in Venice where Jews were obliged to live and indeed confined at night.
Jews were tolerated in Venice, but for a reason.
The key was that Jews could provide a service that Christian merchants were forbidden to do. They could charge interest on their loans.
Fibonacci might have figured out the mathematics of lending, but it took Shylock to do the deal.
This is where the Venetian Jews used to do business.
This building here was the old Banco Rosso and it was outside here that they used to sit behind their tables - their tavole, on their benches - their banchi, the root of the Italian word for banks.
Now, there was good reason why merchants came here to the Jewish Ghetto to borrow money.
For Christians, what the Jews were doing, lending money at interest, was a sin.如果一个犹太人
要在威尼斯停留两周以上
他就要穿身后有黄色O字的外套
或者戴黄帽子
而且他们的行动
被限制在诺瓦犹太人区中
这是威尼斯的犹太区入口
在晚上 犹太人的活动
被限制在此区域中
犹太人被允许在威尼斯活动是有原因的
犹太人可以提供一项
天主教商人被禁止的交易
那就是提供有息贷款
斐波那契计算出放贷的公式
却需要夏洛克等人付诸实践
这是当年威尼斯犹太人的交易地点
这里是当年的罗素银行
在这栋建筑物外
商人们聚于桌子旁[意大利语为tavole]
坐在椅子上[意大利语为banchi]
后者也是意大利语的银行的起源
商人们来犹太人区借钱
是有充分原因的
对天主教教徒来说 犹太人的行为
放贷收息 是原罪之一 |
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发表于 2016-8-2 13:35:48