The Women's Suffrage Movement

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pope Adrian Vi, Gerard David, Ashikaga Yoshitane, Fernão Pires de Andrade, Judah Leon Abravanel, Luca Signorelli, Johannes Pfefferkorn, Ulrich Von Hutten, Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, Diego Deza, Bernardino López de Carvajal, William Cornysh, Thomas Ruthall, Wijerd Jelckama, Timoteo Viti, Franz Von Sickingen, Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, Prospero Colonna, Baccio Da Montelupo, Cecilia Månsdotter, Stephen Hawes, Lucien, Lord of Monaco, Hans Boner, Sylvester Mazzolini, Maciej Miechowita, Ludovico Brea, Antonio Grimani, Juan de Anchieta, Abraham de Balmes, Imbert de Batarnay, Nils Henriksson, Domenico Grimani, Marianus of Florence, Cesare Da Sesto, Matteo D'afflitto, Bartolomeo Montagna, Andrew Lynch, Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, Juw Dekama, David Hamilton, Marco Bello, William Stourton, 5th Baron Stourton, János Aczél, Alessandro Alessandri, Chandan of Kamata, Jean Vallière, Stephen Jenyns. Excerpt: Abraham de Balmes ben Meir (born at Lecce , in the kingdom of Naples ; died at Venice , 1523 was Italian Jewish physician and translator of the early sixteenth century. A short time before his death he was physician in ordinary to the cardinal Dominico Grimani at Padua . See Steinschneider, "Hebr. Bibl." xxi. 7 and 67; "Hebr. Uebers." p. 62; Perles, "Beiträge," pp. 193, 197, etc. Through his Latin translations of many Hebrew works on philosophy and astronomy he attained a great reputation in the Christian world. He dedicated to Cardinal Grimani two of these translations: (1) of an astronomical work in Arabic by Ibn al-Heitham (died 1038), which had been translated into Hebrew by Jacob ben Machir , in 1372, under the title "Liber de Mundo"; (2) of the "Farewell Letter" of the Arabic philosopher Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), which he tr...