ELIANO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
- ELIANO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
- ELIANO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1530–1589), apostate and
anti-Jewish propagandist. Grandson on his mother's side of
elijah levita , whence the surname he adopted, he was formerly
known as Solomon Romano. Born in Rome, he traveled widely with his
father in the Near East and was converted to Roman Catholicism in Venice
in 1551. In the following year he was admitted by Ignatius of Loyola to
the newly founded Society of Jesus and thereafter taught Hebrew and
Arabic at the Collegio Romano. Together with his elder brother Joseph,
converted as Vittorio Eliano, he was largely responsible for the
condemnation and burning of the Talmud in Rome in 1553 (see Talmud,
Burning of ). Giovanni Battista subsequently returned to the Levant
to spread Roman Catholic propaganda among the Copts and Maronites.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J.C. Sola, in: Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu, 4 (1935),
291–321; I. Sonne, Mi-Paolo ha-Revi'i ad Pius ha-Ḥamishi
(1954), 150–5; Enciclopedia Cattolica, 5 (1950), S.
V., includes bibliography.
(Cecil Roth)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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