Joseph Concio

Joseph ben Gershon Concio (Hebrew: יוסף בן גרשון קונציו, Italian: Giuseppe Conzio) was an Italian-Jewish author who lived in Asti and Chieri in the early seventeenth century.[1]

Work

Concio published several poems in Hebrew and Italian, including:

  • Il Canto di Judit (Asti, 1614)
  • Cinque enigmi con la conveniente esposizione (Asti, 1617)[2]
  • Ot le-tovah (Chieri, 1627), an acrostic on Talmudic arguments, which appeared alongside Shir le-siman ha-parashiyyot and Shirim bi-leshon ḥidah meḥubbarim
  • Dibre Ester (Chieri, 1628), an allegorical commentary to Esther,[3] published with Zeh ha-Shulḥan
  • Ma'agal tov (Chieri, 1627–28), comprising seventeen sentences from the Talmud[4]
  • Shir Yehudit (Asti, 1628)
  • Mar'eh ḥayyim (Chieri, 1629), halakic subjects in verse
  • Meḳom binah (Chieri, 1629), comments on certain passages in Proverbs
  • Teḥillat dabar, a treatise on logic
  • Zokher ha-neshamot (unpublished), on the Plague of 1630–31[2][5]

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Elbogen, Ismar (1903). "Concio, Joseph b. Gershon". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 204.

  1. Steinschneider, Moritz (1885). Sokolow, Nahum (ed.). "שירים לר׳ יוסף קונציו בכ״י בלתי ידוע". Ha-Asif (in Hebrew). 2. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 225–227 – via HebrewBooks.
  2. Baldacchini, Lorenzo (1983). "Conzio, Giuseppe". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 28. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  3. De Rossi, Giovanni (1802). Dizionario storico degli autori ebrei e delle loro opere (in Italian). Vol. 1. p. 95.
  4. Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. pp. 1453–1454, 2865.
  5. Olivetti, Sergio (1959). "Uno stampatore e poeta ebreo: Giuseppe Conzio". La Rassegna Mensile di Israel, Terza Serie. 25 (1): 22–25. JSTOR 41280477.


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