Un poema per la rifondazione della "Compagnia di Mezzanotte" nella Lugo ebraica di metà settecento

In this study the authors publish first time the Hebrew text with an Italian translation in rhyme of a poem composed in Lugo by R. Menahem Šabbetai Jacchia (Yahiah) in 1743/44 on the occasion of the re-constitution of the Jewish Hevrat haxot or «Midnight company», devoted to the prayer and reading of the Torah and sacred text. The poem was dedicated to R. Reuben Jacchia, at that time Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Lugo. The text and the quotation it includes refer to a kabbalistic milieu, well known in this Community, in which lived and worked prominent kabbalist such as Isaac Berakiah Fano (3) d. in 1750, grandson of Isaac Berakia Fano (2), who was born in Ferrara in 1582 and dead in Lugo in 1666, the later disciple and nephew of the great Menahem Azaria Fano, born in Ferrara in 1548 and dead in Mantua in 1620, where he was appointed as Chief Rabbi. Yaakov Lattes publishes and studies the text of the poem, Mauro Perani presents the results of his research on the two mentioned Rabbi, thanks to Pinkas ha niftarim of the Jew who lived in Lugo (Ms. New York, J.T.S, 3960).