I wish to express my gratitude to the McGill University Social Science Research Fund for two grants in 1969 and 1971, for obtaining microfilms from the Archivio di Stato di Venezia; to the Director and the staff of the Archivio, and especially to Signorina Una Frizziero, for providing me with the requested microfilms; to the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for grants enabling me to take a leave of absence from the Department of History at McGill University during the academic year 1972–1973; and to Professor Isadore Twersky of Harvard University, for his sage counsel and strong support as director of my Ph.D. thesis.

^{page note 275 1} See my forthcoming article, “The Jewish Settlement of Medieval Venetian Giudecca: Reality or Mirage.”

^{page note 276 2} For further details, see my article, “The Establishment of the Ghetto Vecchio of Venice, 1541: Background and Reappraisal,” to be published in the History section of the Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1973.Google Scholar

^{page note 277 3} See my forthcoming article, “The First Condotta of the Levantine and Ponentine Jewish Merchants of Venice, 1589.”

^{page note 279 4} See the expanded version of my lecture, “Raison d'état and the Jews of Venice in the Seventeenth Century: Some Re-considerations of the Discorso of Simone Luzzatto,” given at the December 29, 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Jewish Research, which I expect will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Proceedings of that Academy.