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Devorà Ascarelli
1600–1700
Devorà Ascarelli was a sixteenth-century Italian Jewish poet in Rome, Italy, who was the first Jewish woman to have a book of her own work published. Little is known about her life except that she was well educated and married to Joseph Ascarelli.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Me‘on ha-sho’alim (Abode of the Supplicants)
This is the title page of Me‘on ha-sho’alim (L’abitacolo degli oranti; Abode of the Supplicants), by the poet and translator Devorà Ascarelli, a member of the Catalan community in Rome. Me‘on ha-sho…
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The Portrait of Susannah
Although a beautiful shock of golden hair swings across her forehead
And love finds nourishment in her eyes
The chaste Susannah never strays from the right path
And harbors not one thought without…