CARPI, SOLOMON JOSEPH B. NATHAN:

By: Executive Committee of the Editorial Board., Joseph Jacobs

Italian writer; born Dec. 27, 1715; lived at Leghorn. He engaged in the controversy with regard to Ḥayyon's book on Shabbethai Ẓebi, writing an attack on it, extracts from which were published by N. Brüll under the title "Toledot Shabbethai Ẓebi," Wilna, 1879. He also wrote a Hebrew elegy on the death of Emmanuel Ricchi, and corresponded with Joseph Ergas.

E. C. J.