Abraham of Sarteano

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Abraham of Sarteano (Hebrew: אברהם מסארטיאנו, Italian: Abraham da Sarteano; fl. late 15th century) was an Italian Hebrew poet from Sarteano, Tuscany.

Abraham's only known work is the Hebrew poem Sone ha-Nashim ('The Woman Hater'). The poem consists of fifty tercets in which the author argues against the moral character of women through a series of examples drawn from the Tanakh, rabbinic tradition, and Greek and Roman history and mythology.[1][2][3]

Sone ha-Nashim initiated a literary controversy that continued through to the 16th century.[3] It prompted responses defending women by Abigdor de Fano in Ozer Nashim and Elijah of Genazzano in Melitsot,[2][4] while an earlier rebuttal reportedly written by David ben Judah Messer Leon has not survived.[5][6]

References

  1. Belli, Antonio (July–August 1969). "Abraham da Sarteano: Il Misogino". La Rassegna Mensile di Israel. 3rd (in Italian). 35 (7–8): 323–333. JSTOR 41283144.
  2. Schirmann, Jefim (Hayyim) (2007). "Abraham of Sarteano". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  3. Ossorio, Aurora Salvatierra. "Ohev Nashim and Minḥat Yehudah Soneʾ ha-Nashim: New Fragments of a Debate". His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror. pp. 267–268. doi:10.1163/9789004407541_014.
  4. Karpeles, Gustav (1895). "Humor and Love in Jewish Poetry". Jewish Literature and Other Essays. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. p. 224.
  5. Tirosh-Rothschild, Hava (Fall 1988). "In Defense of Jewish Humanism". Jewish History. 3 (2 (Fall, 1988): 37, 52. JSTOR 20085218.
  6. Tirosh-Rothschild, Hava (2012). Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-2222-0.