Shemesh Tzedakah [responsa]

MORPURGO, SAMSON

Vendramin

Venice

1743

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in volume. Two historiated titles within identical architectural columns

Vinograd, Venice 1832

In youth, Samson Morpurgo (1681-1740) studied Talmud in the Venetian yeshivah of Samuel Aboab. Later, he received a doctorate in philosophy and medicine from the University of Padua (1700). In 1721 Morpurgo succeeded his father-in-law the kabbalist Joseph Fiametta as Rabbi of Ancona, a position he held until his death. It may be said of Morpurgo that he distinguished himself equally in the fields of Halacha and medicine. In recognition of his selfless devotion to the victims of the influenza epidemic of 1730, he was publicly honored by Cardinal Lambertini. See EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 350-351