NATHAN JEDIDIAH BEN ELIEZER:

Italian poet; born at Orvieto in 1607. In 1625, being then at Sienna, he paraphrased in Hebrew terza-rima three "widduyim": Baḥya's, beginning (following the Italian paraphrase in verse of his maternal grandfather, Johanan Judah Alatrini), that of R. Nissim, and an anonymous widdui beginning . He was also the author of three sonnets in Hebrew and Italian, and of a Hebrew dirge consisting of eight strophes of six verses each. All these poems were published in one volume (Venice, 1628).

Bibliography:
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 22;
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2035;
  • Zunz, Literaturgesch. pp. 429-430.
E. C. M. Sel.
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