Ludovicus Carretus
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Ludovicus Carretus was a physician and a Jewish convert to Christianity of the sixteenth century.
. He was a native of France and was originally called "Todros Cohen." As the physician of a Spanish duke, he was with the imperial troops who besieged Florence in 1545. Later, at the age of fifty, he embraced Christianity at Genoa
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writings in favor of Christianity. The work, published at Paris in 1553, was translated into Latin by Angelo Canini
(Florence, 1554) under the title Epistola Ludovici Carreti ad Judæos, Quæ Inscribitur Liber Visorum Divinorum. Another Latin translation of it was made by Hermann Germberg, and is inserted in Johannes Buxtorf
's Synagoga Judaica.
Life
He lived at FlorenceFlorence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
. He was a native of France and was originally called "Todros Cohen." As the physician of a Spanish duke, he was with the imperial troops who besieged Florence in 1545. Later, at the age of fifty, he embraced Christianity at Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
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Works
Carretus is the author of Mar'ot Elohim; Liber Visorum Divinorum, in which he relates the history of his conversion and quotes passages from the Bible and kabbalisticKabbalah
Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...
writings in favor of Christianity. The work, published at Paris in 1553, was translated into Latin by Angelo Canini
Angelo Canini
Angelo Canini was an Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar from Anghiari.-Life:His first publication was Book II of the commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on the De anima of Aristotle...
(Florence, 1554) under the title Epistola Ludovici Carreti ad Judæos, Quæ Inscribitur Liber Visorum Divinorum. Another Latin translation of it was made by Hermann Germberg, and is inserted in Johannes Buxtorf
Johannes Buxtorf
Johannes Buxtorf was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". His massive tome, De Synagoga Judaica Johannes Buxtorf (December 25, 1564 – September 13, 1629) was a...
's Synagoga Judaica.