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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
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Bible Encyclopedias
Crescenzi, Alexander
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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Jewish convert to Christianity; lived at Rome in the seventeenth century. In 1666 he translated from the Spanish into Italian Antony Colmenarde Ludesina's treatise on chocolate, printed with notes by Alexander Vitrioli, Rome, 1667. Mandosius speaks of Crescenzi as a mathematician who became celebrated on account of his report, which he edited with mathematical notes, on the eruption of Vesuvius in 1660.
Bibliography:
- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. , No. 309b;
- Vogelstein and Rieger, Die Juden in 2:287;
- Monatsschrift, 43:473.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Crescenzi, Alexander'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/c/crescenzi-alexander.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Crescenzi, Alexander'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/c/crescenzi-alexander.html. 1901.
