Christian name
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''Duarte Pinhel'') was a 16th-century publisher. Usque was born in
Portugal
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to a
Jewish
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family and fled the
Portuguese Inquisition
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for
Ferrara
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,
Italy
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Marrano
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''Jerónimo de Vargas''), a
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
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...
typographer
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. Drawing on various earlier translations, Usque produced a new translation of the
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach" . '' Tanakh
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach" . ''
Gracia Nasi. It was published in folio at Ferrara in 1553 and known as the Ferrara Bible. This edition has become scarce, but a second was published in
Holland
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in 1630. In this translation, the
Hebrew
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text is rendered
verbatim
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Verbatim (1965 ...
.
Other books published by Usque included the Portuguese classic ''Menina e Moça'' by
Bernardim Ribeiro
Bernardim Ribeiro (1482October 1552) was a Renaissance Portuguese poet and writer.
Early life
Ribeiro was a native of Torrão in the Alentejo. His father, Damião Ribeiro, was implicated in a conspiracy against King John II in 1484, and had t ...
, and ''Consolação às Tribulações de Israel'' by
Samuel Usque
Samuel Usque (Lisbon, c.1500 - after 1555 in Italy or Palestine) was a Portuguese converso Jewish author who settled in Ferrara. Usque was a trader.
His major work is the ''Consolação às Tribulações de Israel'' ("Consolation for the Tribulat ...
, whose kinship with Abraham has not yet been clarified.