Obadiah of Bertinoro: Quick Facts

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Italian explorer

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Franciscan author

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Odoric of Pordenone

Franciscan friar

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Italian merchant

Giovanni dei Marignolli

Italian clergyman

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Giorgio Manganelli

Italian author

Emilio Cecchi

Italian essayist and critic

Ashi

Babylonian-Jewish scholar

Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Italian geographer and author

Elijah Bokher Levita

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Sir Moses Montefiore, Baronet

British philanthropist

Leone Modena

Italian rabbi and writer

Hillel ben Samuel

Jewish physician and scholar

Samuel David Luzzatto

Jewish writer and scholar

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Jérôme Tharaud

French writer

Jean Tharaud

French writer

Martin E. Johnson

American adventurer and photographer