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You understand, my sweet confessor, that I could be even more of a sinner than not, and I hope just the same for your absolution. In the meantime, I will tell you that after…
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Ettore Schmitz
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Trieste, Kingdom of Italy (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1896
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To the honored Professor Sen. C. F. Gabba,
The long article that you published in the Rassegna Nazionale on the first of last April requires my response: a response that is addressed not only to you…
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Felice Ravenna
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Ferrara, Kingdom of Italy (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1906
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I record how, in the year 1625, the Grand Duke came to Sienna, and Messer Abraham Pesaro and Messer Buonaventura Gallichi were appointed to collect the levy. From me, they demanded a pair of sheets, a…
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Joseph of Siena
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Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Siena, Italy)
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1625–1633
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To satisfy your doubt concerning my signature, I have to tell you, in all philosophical frankness, that I was born with a burning desire and the greatest curiosity to know, more as a way to get to…
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Joseph Attias
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Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (Livorno, Italy)
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1733
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In a dream, in a night vision, while [I was] asleep upon [my] bed during my imprisonment, a voice called in my ears. The voice was the voice of Jacob, like the voice of my father, may his memory be…
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Abraham Yagel
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1578
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We, the undersigned, came in to visit the honorable lady Rosa Romanina, widow of R. Moses Guastalla of blessed memory, a resident of Rivarolo, and found her sick, lying on her bed, but her words and…
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Rosa Romanina
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
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1642
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The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…
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Barukh Uziel Hazaketto
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
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1550
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The slaughter that occurred there, in Lisbon:
I was out of the city, and when I returned after several days they told me that the two [events, namely, the massacre within Lisbon and in the surrounding…
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Solomon Ibn Verga
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
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ca. 1520
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto to the prince and magnate, chieftain and nobleman, our teacher R. Menaḥem Azariah de Fano—may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him—greetings to his glorious excellency!
Beh…
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto
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Cremona, Spanish Empire (Cremona, Italy)
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ca. 1574
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To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic
Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
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Isaac Cardoso
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1673