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Title
Gracia Benveniste, daughter of late Diogo Mendes Benveniste: Ferrara, 1558.
Subject
Gracia Benveniste, daughter of late Diogo Mendes Benveniste and the late Brianda de Luna, wife of Samuel Nasi
Description
This will was written for the niece of the famed Gracia Nasi. It was ostensibly made soon after her marriage to Samuel Nasi, and soon before she left to Constantinople. She was around 19 at the time of the will's recording. For more on Gracia Benveniste, see "Fate of Gracia Nasi’s Niece" at https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nasi-dona-gracia . See also: Segre, Renata. “Sephardic Refugees in Ferrara: Two Notable Families.” In Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648, edited by Benjamin Gampel, 164–185. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Creator
Ferrara, Italy
Date
27 May 1558
Source
Archivio di Stato, Ferrara
ASFe, Notarile antico, not. Giacomo Conti, matr. 584, pacco 8s, schede 1558.
See Traniello, "Percorsi di donne ebree a Ferrara"
Language
Latin
Coverage
Italy