Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo, sopra l’utile sue inventioni circa la seta (Dialogues of Magino Gabrielli, Hebrew, On the Utility of His Inventions in Silk Production)

Meir Magino (known in Italian as Magino Gabrielli Hebreo) was an inventor in Venice in the late sixteenth century. He developed a process for extracting silk thread from cocoons twice in a year and in 1587 was invited by Pope Sixtus V to introduce the practice into the Papal States. He also developed a new process for polishing mirrors and colored cut glass, and produced a type of wine bottle that remained in use in Roman wineshops for centuries.