CARMI, ISAIAH ḤAI BEN JOSEPH
- CARMI, ISAIAH ḤAI BEN JOSEPH
- CARMI, ISAIAH ḤAI BEN JOSEPH (1740–1799), Italian Hebrew
poet. Carmi was a disciple of Israel Benjamin Bassani, whom he succeeded
as rabbi of Reggio in North Italy. He died there when he was about to
accept a call to Trieste. Carmi's pupil Anania (Hananiah Elhanan) Coen
in his poetics Ru'aḥ Ḥadashah printed some of his poems.
Carmi carried on a scholarly correspondence with the bibliophile Moses
Benjamin Foà\>\> and with the Christian Hebraist G.B. de'
Rossi\>\> . Isaiah Ḥai Carmi is not to be confused with an earlier poet,
Isaiah Nathan Carmi, who lived c. 1591 (Ms. Kaufmann, no. 291).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Coen, Saggio di eloquenza ebrea (1827), 59;
Ghirondi-Neppi, 104, no. 7; 186, no. 139; Gross, Gal Jud, 262;
Guenzburg, in: Recueil Daniel Chwolson (1899), 70ff., 88–118;
Davidson, Oẓar, 4 (1933), 425; A.B. Piperno, Kol Ugav (1846),
nos. 25 and 26.
(Jefim (Hayyim) Schirmann)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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