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Italian scholar of the sixteenth century, of German origin, died around 1570. Established in Ettlingen and then Cremona, where he directed a school, he had a falling-out with Joshua dei Cantori, who would sit on the censorship committee that condemned the Talmud. Between 1558 and 1562, he had some twenty Hebrew works printed in Riva di Trento, including his « Luaḥ mi-Kol ha-Dinim » (1558), a list of the decisions of the RaN, and « Simane Mordekai » (1558); he is wrongly attributed with the edition of « Diḳduḳe Rashi », an abridgment of Elijah Mizrahi's supercommentary on Rashi.

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OTTOLENGO, JOSEPH

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Savant italien du seizième siècle ; mort vers 1570. Il était d'origine allemande, mais il se rendit d'Ettlingen à Crémone. Là, il dirigea une école ("Hebr. Bibl." v. 125, note), et entra en conflit avec Joshua dei Cantori, qui, en partie pour cette raison, consentit à servir avec Vittorio Eliano à la commission de censure qui condamna le Talmud. Il fit publier, ou fit publier à ses frais, environ vingt livres hébreux à Riva di Trento, entre 1558 et 1562, dans l'imprimerie fondée par le Cardinal Cristoforo Madruz. Ghirondi affirme à tort qu'Ottolengo avait fait imprimer ces livres à Crémone, et tous deux, lui et Fürst, lui attribuent à tort l'authorship du "Diḳduḳe Rashi," un compendium du supercommentaire d'Elijah Mizraḥi au Rashi, qu'il se contenta seulement d'éditer. Il est possible que l'auteur fût réellement Jacob Marcaria, qui écrivit des préfaces à quelques-unes des éditions d'Ottolengo. Ottolengo était l'auteur des ouvrages suivants : "Luaḥ mi-Kol ha-Dinim" (Riva di Trento, 1558), une liste des décisions du RaN ; et "Simane Mordekai" (_ib._ 1558).

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Sources & resources

  • jewishencyclopedia.com
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 58
  • David Gans, Ẓemaḥ Dawid (1570)
  • Nepi-Ghirondi, Toledot Gedole Yisrael
  • Gedaliah ibn Yaḥya, Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah
  • Allg. Zeit. des Jud. July, 1902 (1902)
  • Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. i. 112
  • Mortara, Indice

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