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Abraham Usque
1521–1587
Abraham ben Samuel Usque (Duarte Pinel) was a New Christian of Portuguese origin who was active as a translator in Ferrara, Italy. Together with printer Yom Tob ben Athias, he produced the first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Spanish, known as the Ferrara Bible (1553).
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Dedication (to Gracia Nasi): Ferrara Bible
It would not seem proper, most magnificent Lady, that now we are about to print the Bible in our Spanish tongue, translated from the Hebrew word for word—so rare a work never before known until our…
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Spanish Translation of the Bible
In his De officiis, most discreet reader, Tullius Cicero writes that nothing can move us so powerfully as to see some form or kind of benefit, which must be esteemed all the more, the less it is of an…