IMBONATI (-TUS), CARLO GUISEPPE°

IMBONATI (-TUS), CARLO GUISEPPE° (?1650–1696), Italian Hebraist. A Cistercian, Imbonati was trained in rabbinic bibliography by his fellow Cistercian J. Bartolocci\>\> , the fourth volume of whose great work (Kiriath Sepher… Bibliotheca magna rabbinica…, Rome, 1693) he edited; he added a fifth volume, Magen ve-Ḥerev u-Milhamah – Bibliotheca Latino-Hebraica… (1694), which listed Christian writers on Jews and Judaism. It also included a polemical tract directed against Jewish denial of the messiahship of Jesus. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Steinschneider, in: ZHB, 3 (1899), 86, no. 238; Steinschneider, Cat Bod, 1054 no. 5264. (Raphael Loewe)