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I will greatly thank the Lord with my mouth, and I will bless God in full assembles [see Psalms 68:27], for He has not forsaken His mercy and His truth from me [see Genesis 24:27], but has led me on…
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Abraham di Sant’Angelo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1558
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O age! Here’s something new that I have filled
With old, like fine oil in a flask.
A kind of verse to please men’s mouths and minds
I have invented for exploring love.
I provide a model of the…
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Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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Moses Maimonides, Cornelio Adelkind
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Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua
(Sabbioneta, Italy)
Date:
1553
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Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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Please listen to my words,
Wise, honest, and beautiful women
For my riddle is complete:
Against your faithful crew [of women]
Old men
Raise your shame to the stars
While I protect you,
Defend you…
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Judah Sommo
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1577
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Why, death, do you tarry so?
Why does your chariot come so slow?
Old age has prepared for me
Every illness and complaint.
What good are my hundred years?
If such pain I undergo—
Why, death…
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Jacob Frances
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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A woman beautiful in every way
I give you—pedigreed, with every skill—
And all you want to know is what’s the dowry!
That’s not the way to think; that’s faulty judgment.
If you’d appraise her…
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Jacob Frances
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1576
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And now we see that the number of servants breaking away from their Master, our Heavenly Father, increases daily, in that whenever they have a quarrel with their Jewish brothers or sisters they have…
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Azriel Diena
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Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua
(Sabbioneta, Italy)
Date:
1536
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Eliah Forli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1614, 1623