New documents on Samuel Usque, the author of the 'Consolacam as tribulacoens de Israel'

Authors
Guerrini, MT
Citation
Mt. Guerrini, New documents on Samuel Usque, the author of the 'Consolacam as tribulacoens de Israel', SEFARAD, 61(1), 2001, pp. 83-89
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Religion & Tehology
Journal title
SEFARAD
ISSN journal
00370894 → ACNP
Volume
61
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
83 - 89
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-0894(2001)61:1<83:NDOSUT>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Samuel Usque was a sixteenth-century Ferrara merchant and man of letters. U sque and Beatriz de Luna [Gracia Nasi] collaborated in the well-known task of reeducating Marranos in the precepts of normative Judaism. In addition, he represented Brianda Mendes in business trading in Antwerp, Ferrara, Veni ce and Ancona.