Me‘on ha-sho’alim (Abode of the Supplicants)

Devorà Ascarelli

1601

Printed page with Hebrew and Italian text.
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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.

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