The Portrait of Susannah

Devorà Ascarelli

16th Century

Although a beautiful shock of golden hair swings across her forehead

And love finds nourishment in her eyes

The chaste Susannah never strays from the right path

And harbors not one thought without the Lord.

Hence those who, casting caution aside, ogle her

And see beauty in her, and grace, and worth,

Finally notice that in a chaste heart

There is…

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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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