GENAZZANO, ELIA DI BENIAMIN DA

GENAZZANO, ELIA di BENIAMIN da. — Rabbi of the second half of the 15th century, author of a kabbalistic work ('Iggereth bāmādhōth), a poem on the goodness of women, and two anti-Christian parodies. He also left a summary of an anti-Christian polemic conducted against the Franciscan Francesco da Acquapendente.

BIBL.: U. Cassuto, Ebrei a Firenze, Florence 1918, p. 248 ff.; id., s. V. ENOCH. Ind., VII, col. 229. Eugenio Zolli
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“GENAZZANO, ELIA DI BENIAMIN DA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 1183. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/genazzano-elia-di-beniamin-da.