Capitolo 94
from Italy in Jerusalem, where he was named Rabbi. In a letter to
his/her father he intensely gives a touching account of his/her trip and of the
state of Hebron and Zion. The account is full of personal detail, and
it is marked in everything from deep love for his/her father for which struggle
the dominion with his/her love for the City Saint.
A more ambitious job was the "Itinera Mundi" of Abraham Farissol,
writing in autumn of 1524. This essay was based on original
researches as on the jobs of Cristiano and Arabic geographers.
He incidentally says a good quantity on the condition of the Hebrews in
various parts of the world. Indeed, almost all the geographical
writings of Hebrews are social histories of their brothers in faith.
Rather later, David Reubeni published some strange histories as to the
Hebrews. He went to Rome, where he made a considerable feeling, and it was
received by Pope Clement VII (1523-1534). Dwarfish in stature and the dark
in complexion, David Reubeni was wasted by continuous fast but his
way, although sour and surly, it was intrepid and reverential-inspiring fear. His
the outrageous falsehoods for once found the ready acceptance with Hebrews and
Similar Cristiano, and his/her fervent Messianism won above to his/her many cause
Marranos--Hebrews that had been forced from the investigation in Spain to suppose
the external attire of the Christianity. His/her principal application on the memory of
posterity was its connection with the dramatic career of Solomon Molcho
(1501-1532), a noble youth in mind and body that to Reubeni
personated of instigation the Messiah, and in first virility a martyr died
death among the flames of the investigation in Mantua.
The geographical literature of the Hebrews not lost his/her association
with Messianic hopes. Anthony de that Montesinos, in 1642 you/he/she has imagined that him
you/he/she had discovered in South America the descendants of the Ten Tribes. Him
the foreign countries had been conducted to from the considerations of business and love of trip, and
in Brazil he/she met him with a half-caste Indian from which the affirmations him