Moses Chayyim Catalan

Moses Chayyim Catalan (b. Padua, Italy, d. 1661, Padua) was an Italian poet. A son of the physician , he was rabbi in his native town, and died there at an advanced age in 1661. It was to him that the first letters of , whose teacher he was, were addressed. His "Metzaref ha-Sekel", a rhetorical pamphlet on man, has never been published. He wrote a poem in honor of the marriage of his sister Perla to , which can be read either as Hebrew or as Italian. It has been reprinted by Johann Christoph Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebræa iii. 726. In 1645 he wrote a similar poem in honor of . An elegy on Lamentations in ottava rima was also published by him at Padua.

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Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Pachad Yitzchaq, 10a
Marco Osimo, Narrazione, p. 68
Franz Delitzsch, Zur Geschichte der Jüdischen Poesie, p. 71
Moritz Steinschneider, Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana col. 1785
Cat. Ghirondi (Sam. Schönblum, Berlin, 1872), p. 2, cod. 4B (where the pamphlet is erroneously ascribed to Abraham Catalan, "rabbi in Padua")
Moritz Steinschneider, in Monatsschrift, xliii. 420

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Richard Gottheil and Meyer Kayserling (1901–1906). "Catalan, Moses Ḥayyim". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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