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Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo (1790-1871), Hebrew poet, born in Trieste, Italy (then part of Austria), in 1790, into a famous Jewish Italian family who numbered many scholars. She was educated at home, studied Hebrew, and already at the age of fourteen could read the Bible and various Jewish commentaries in original. Her studies also included the Talmud and at the age of eighteen, she started composing Hebrew poetry. Rachel Luzzatto married Jacob Morpurgo when she was twenty-nine, after many years during which her parents opposed the marriage to a modest merchant. Rachel wrote Hebrew poetry during her entire life, many of her poems were published in Kochvei Yitzhak (Stars of Isaac), a Hebrew journal published in Vienna. Rachel Morpurgo's poems echo motifs taken from the Jewish traditions as well as ideas of the age of Enlightenment, while her old age work is more centered on mystic contemplation of the love of God and Messianic ideas. Her poems were collected and published in 1890.

Simone Simha Luzzatto (1583-1663) Rabbi.

Born in Venice, Italy, he was educated by the outstanding rabbis of his time and also had an excellent secular and classical training. Age 20, his rabbinical opinions were cited with respect and his responsa began to be published two years later. From then on he was cited as 'the rabbi from Venice' and from 1648 headed the Venetian rabbinate. One of his responsa permitted traveling by gondola on the Sabbath. He wrote Socrates in Platonic dialogue form, whose theme is to prove the uselessness of human reason without revelation. His main work is a political treatise arguing for the toleration of the Jews, especially for economic reasons.