Gracia Benveniste, daughter of late Diogo Mendes Benveniste: Ferrara, 1558.

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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