PIZZIGHETTONE, DAVID BEN ELIE-ZER HA-LEVI:

Italian Talmudist and physician; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. As physician he was active in. Cremona; as editor, in Venice. In the latter city he was employed in the Bomberg printing establishment, and wrote an introduction to the edition of Maimonides' "Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah" published there.

According to a statement of Landshuth, Pizzighettone was rabbi in Ferrara; but this statement is erroneous.

Bibliography:
  • Mortara, Indice;
  • I. T. Eisenstadt, Da'at Kedoshim. p. 58;
  • Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 343;
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 106.
E. C. A. Pe.
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