About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Conrad Celtes, Isaac Abrabanel, Robert Lauder of The Bass, Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus, Ludovico Sforza, Elizabeth FitzHugh, Baroness Vaux of Harrowden, Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, Giles Daubeny, 1st Baron Daubeny, Robert Blackadder, Beatrice of Naples, Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny, Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Rene II, Duke of Lorraine, Nil Sorsky, Alexander Boyd, 3rd Lord Boyd, Hieronymus Munzer, Jan Zabrzezi ski, Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, James, Duke of Rothesay, Abraham Saba, Peter of Ravenna, Thomas Savage, Mahmud Khan, Philip, Elector Palatine, Michelotto Corella, Waldemar VI, Prince of Anhalt-Kothen, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, Edward Brampton, Keian Genju, Na'od, Judah ben Eliezer ha-Levi Minz, Lucrezia Crivelli, Roger Leyburn, Uilliam Seoighe, Jorge da Costa, Elisabeth Corvinus, Jan Thurzo, George Vaus, Dominick Dubh Lynch, Theodericus Ulsenius, Lourenco de Almeida, Mayimama M rakk r, Simone del Pollaiolo, Wu Wei, Radu IV the Great, Palamede de Forbin, Ercole Strozzi, Damkhat Reachea. Excerpt: Isaac ben Judah Abrabanel, (Lisbon, 1437 - Venice, 1508), also spelled Abravanel or Abarbanel, commonly referred to as The Abarbanel, was a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. Abrabanel was born in Lisbon, Portugal, into one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish Iberian families who had escaped persecution in Castile during 1391. A student of the rabbi of Lisbon, Joseph Chaim, he became well versed in rabbinic literature and in the learning of his time, devoting his early years to the study of Jewish philosophy. Abrabanel is quoted as saying that he included Joseph ibn Shem-Tov as his mentor. At twenty years old, he wrote on the original form of the natural elements, on religious questions and prophecy. Together with his intelle...
