Creator Bio
Yeḥiel Nissim da Pisa
1507–ca. 1574
Born in Florence, Yeḥiel Nissim da Pisa came from a family of bankers and scholars. He received a broad education and became known as a manuscript copyist. He lived in Pisa, where he hosted the traveler David Ha-Reuveni. Ḥayye ‘olam (Eternal Life) is an economic treatise on usury and interest, written in 1559. Besides this work, da Pisa wrote Minḥat kena’ot (The Zealous Portion), a philosophical work, and other short philosophical and kabbalistic works.
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Ḥayye ‘olam (Eternal Life)
Chapter 15. In Explanation of Bills of Exchange Called Cambii and of Maritime Insurance
We could have dispensed with the discussion of bills of exchange which are called in Italian cambii since they…