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Pizzighettone, David ben Elie-Zer ha-Levi
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Italian Talmudist and physician; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. As physician he was active in. Cremona; as editor, in Venice. In the latter city he was employed in the Bomberg printing establishment, and wrote an introduction to the edition of Maimonides' "Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah" published there.
According to a statement of Landshuth, Pizzighettone was rabbi in Ferrara; but this statement is erroneous.
Bibliography:- Mortara, Indice;
- I. T. Eisenstadt, Da'at Kedoshim. p. 58;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 343;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3:106.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Pizzighettone, David ben Elie-Zer ha-Levi'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/p/pizzighettone-david-ben-elie-zer-ha-levi.html. 1901.