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Joseph Concio

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Joseph ben Gershon Concio (Hebrew: יוסף בן גרשון קונציו, Italian: Giuseppe Conzio) was an Italian-Jewish author who lived in Asti and Chieri in the early seventeenth century.[1]

Work

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Concio published several poems in Hebrew and Italian, including:

  • Il Canto di Judit (Asti, 1614)
  • Cinque enigmi con la conveniente esposizione (Asti, 1617)[2]
  • Ot le-tovah (Chieri, 1627), an acrostic on Talmudic arguments, which appeared alongside Shir le-siman ha-parashiyyot and Shirim bi-leshon ḥidah meḥubbarim
  • Dibre Ester (Chieri, 1628), an allegorical commentary to Esther,[3] published with Zeh ha-Shulḥan
  • Ma'agal tov (Chieri, 1627–28), comprising seventeen sentences from the Talmud[4]
  • Shir Yehudit (Asti, 1628)
  • Mar'eh ḥayyim (Chieri, 1629), halakic subjects in verse
  • Meḳom binah (Chieri, 1629), comments on certain passages in Proverbs
  • Teḥillat dabar, a treatise on logic
  • Zokher ha-neshamot (unpublished), on the Plague of 1630–31[2][5]

References

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainGottheil, Richard; Elbogen, Ismar (1903). "Concio, Joseph b. Gershon". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 204.

  1. ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1885). Sokolow, Nahum (ed.). "שירים לר׳ יוסף קונציו בכ״י בלתי ידוע". Ha-Asif (in Hebrew). 2. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 225–227 – via HebrewBooks.
  2. ^ a b Baldacchini, Lorenzo (1983). "Conzio, Giuseppe". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 28. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  3. ^ De Rossi, Giovanni (1802). Dizionario storico degli autori ebrei e delle loro opere (in Italian). Vol. 1. p. 95.
  4. ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. pp. 1453–1454, 2865.
  5. ^ Olivetti, Sergio (1959). "Uno stampatore e poeta ebreo: Giuseppe Conzio". La Rassegna Mensile di Israel, Terza Serie. 25 (1): 22–25. JSTOR 41280477.
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