Published: 23 November 2020
Last updated: 5 March 2024
THE LARGER-THAN-LIFE STORY of a 16th-century Jewish merchant is getting the comic book treatment in “The Wandering Jewess.”
Written by Gianluca Piredda and illustrated by Leo Sgarbi, the four-episode series is a graphic history of the adventurous life of Doña Gracia Nasi (1510–1569), a courageous woman who defied convention and fought for the religious freedom of herself and her fellow Jews in the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition.
Published in the last few weeks in the popular Italian weekly Lanciostory, the series follows Nasi, one of the wealthiest Jewish women of the Renaissance, who was forced to live in public as a Christian along with other hidden Sephardic Jews.
FULL STORY Life of 16th-century heiress, philanthropist and crypto-Jew hits Italian comics (Times of Israel)
Image: Gracia Nasi in Antwerp in a scene from The Wandering Jewess, story by Gianluca Piredda and art by Leo Sgarbi. (Courtesy Piredda)
