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On the existence and nature of a great and awesome, holy world, which is situated beyond the equator, and whether it is possible that there is a settlement south of this equator, called zo…
Contributor:
Abraham Farissol
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
First Quarter of the 16th Century
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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
Contributor:
Abraham Portaleone
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1611
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Question: . . . When Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi was visiting this land, he told me that he printed sixteen megillot on parchment prepared for this purpose [i.e., to be used for the scrolls—Ed.]. When I…
Contributor:
Moses Provenzali
Places:
Mantua, Holy Roman Empire (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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[…] Among such divergent opinions, poor Iduzza didn’t dare formulate any view on her own.
To the many mysteries of Authority which frightened her there had now been added the word Aryans, which she…
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Elsa Morante
Places:
Rome, Italy
Date:
1974
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What shall the passive and lackluster do
if the pious and accomplished are swiftly felled by angels?
Quake, nations, and rich and poor fear ye the judgment day.
When the…
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Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1554–1705
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Salamone de Rossi
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1622/23