Immanuel Frances
Immanuel Frances · Arts & Literature
Italian Hebrew poet and rabbinical scholar, an outspoken opponent of Sabbateanism.
1618, Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (now Italy) — after 1703, Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy)
Italy (Mantua, Livorno) · Algiers
Immanuel Frances is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Italian Hebrew poet and rabbinical scholar, an outspoken opponent of Sabbateanism.
Immanuel Frances was an Italian Hebrew poet and rabbinical scholar who, with his brother Jacob, waged a poetic and polemical campaign (1664–1667) against the messianic movement of Sabbatai Zevi and against what he saw as the excesses of Kabbalah. A committed Jewish scholar, he wrote 'Metek Sefatayim', a treatise on Hebrew prosody illustrated with his own verse. Opposition from Kabbalist rabbis forced him to wander and settle finally in Livorno.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
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Italian Hebrew poet and rabbinical scholar, an outspoken opponent of Sabbateanism.
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
