**ABSTRACT:** The Livornese Jewish scholar Joseph Attias (1672-1739) is known for his contributions to eighteenth-century Tuscan culture as a book collector and mediator. Attias sent two autobiographical letters to a beloved correspondent, renowned Modenese historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori, in 1724 and 1733. This presentation will analyze the documents as self-conscious life narratives and examples of early Enlightenment self-fashioning that shed light on the strategies employed by a Jewish member of the Republic of Letters to present his formative years, his training, and his achievements to one of the most esteemed representatives of eighteenth-century Italian culture. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Letter to L.A. Muratori (December 22, 1724) * Letter to L.A. Muratori (November 20, 1733)
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**ABSTRACT:** The egodocuments presented to the seminar are Inquisitorial confessions of second-generation "nuevos convertidos" who in one way or another were caught between their parents' desire to maintain contact with Judaism and their own alleged desire to assimilate as Spanish Catholics. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Trial of Francisco Martínez, apothocary, resident of Deza * Trial of Gaspar de San Clemente
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