Jacob Fano
{{Short description|Hebrew poet}}Jacob ben Joab Elijah da Fano was an Italian rabbi and Hebrew poet; he lived at Ferrara and Ancona about the middle of the sixteenth century. He was the teacher of Abraham Portaleone.
Works
He wrote: "Shilṭe ha-Gibborim," a rhythmical poem warning men against women, and "Ḳinah," an elegy in verse on the persecution of the Jews at Ancona, published together at Ferrara, 1556; "Zoker ha-Berit," a treatise on the commandments, which formed the first part of his "Petaḥ Tiḳwah," no longer extant. He is generally supposed to have been the author of the "Ḳiẓẓur Ḥobot ha-Lebabot," Venice, 1655, a compendium of Baḥya's "Ḥobot ha-Lebabot."
References
- Zunz, in Geiger's Wiss. Zeit. Jüd. Theol. iii. 56;
- Franz Delitzsch, Zur Gesch. der Hebräischen Poesie, p. 173;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1210;
- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 561
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