Abraham Portaleone

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Abraham ben David Portaleone (born March 18, 1542 in Mantua ; died July 29, 1612 there ) was an Italian-Jewish doctor and writer .

Life

Abraham Portaleone came from an important Jewish family from Mantua who already provided a number of doctors. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia and successfully completed his studies with a doctorate . In 1563 he received his license to practice medicine . Ten years later he was the personal physician in the service of the Dukes of Mantua. Pope Gregory XIV confirmed a decree by Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga and granted Portaleone a dispensation so that he could treat Christian patients.

In addition to two medical treatises in Latin, he wrote the Schilte ha-Gibborim (dt. The heroes shields ), an encyclopedic work in Hebrew , which ostensibly a description of Solomon's Temple is, however, is woven into all sorts of mundane considerations of medicine, alchemy, war Art & . a. offers.

Since 1605 Portaleone suffered from a one-sided paralysis, which he saw as a punishment from God, whereupon he wanted to turn to a more pious life. Portaleone died in Mantua on July 29, 1612 at the age of about 70.

Works

literature

  • Gianfranco Miletto: The Bible as a manual of the art of war according to the interpretation of Abraham ben David Portaleone. In: Giuseppe Veltri, Annette Winkelmann (ed.): On the threshold to modernity. Jews in the Renaissance (= Studies in European Judaism; 7). Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-12979-0 , pp. 78-89.
  • Gianfranco Miletto: The admission of Jewish doctors in Italy during the counter-reform [sic!]: The Portaleone case. In: Biblische Notizen 116 (2003) pp. 48–55.
  • Gianfranco Miletto: Faith and Knowledge in the Age of Reformation. The Solomonic Temple at Abraham ben David Portaleone (1542-1612) (= Studia Judaica; 27). De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-018150-9 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Halle / Saale 2003).
  • Gianfranco Miletto:  Portaleone, Abraham. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 85:  Ponzone-Quercia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gianfranco Miletto:  Abraham Portaleone. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
personal data
SURNAME Portaleone, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Portaleone, Avraham ben David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Jewish doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1542
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantua
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1612
Place of death Mantua