City in the province of Ravenna, and the family seat of the FINZI according to a tradition of the family; Maẓliaḥ (Felice) Finzi lived there as early as 1450. The physician Lazarus Hebræus, prominent in the fifteenth century on account of his wealth, his scholarship, and his benevolence in treating the poor gratuitously, and the liturgical poet Raphael (
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- Cassel, in Ersch and Gruber, Encyc. section , part 27, p. 153;
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 385, Addenda 28;
- J. Q. R. 14:409;
- Bernardinus da Feltre, in Acta Sanctorum, 8:926.
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