Jacob Marcaria (died 1562) is best known as operator of the

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in the period from 1558 to 1562. Riva del Garda 018

The press was licensed under Joseph Ottolengo, a German

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to whom Cardinal

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had granted the privilege of printing

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. Marcaria also practiced as a

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. Marcaria edited several of the works himself, and in some cases is thought to have in fact authored works published under other writers' names. His best known work is probably ''Kitzur Mizrachi'' a summary of

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's ''Sefer ha-Mizrachi''.

External links

Riva Di Trento
jewishencyclopedia.com
Resources in Jewish History: The Paratexts of Jacob Marcaria: Addressing the (Imagined) Reader in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Italy
16th-century Italian Jews 1562 deaths Year of birth unknown People from Trento {{Italy-reli-bio-stub