Pietosi
Pietosi [1]
is the name of a celebrated Jewish family, called in Hebrew מן הענוים, which, like the families מן התפוחים and מן הנערים, traced their origin to those Jews who were led into captivity after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and Vespasian. To this family belong the following:
1. BENJAMIN DE, ben-Abr., b.-Jech., b.-Abr. Rofe, of Rome, who flourished in the middle of the 13th century, is the author of שער עצ חיים, a didactic poem (Prague, 1598): — צפיוטים ושירים religious hymns. See Zunz, Synagogale Poesie, pages 313-315; id. Literaturgeschichte der synagog. Poesie, page 362 sq.; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Hebr. in Bibl. Bodl. page 2767 sq.; Dukes, Ozar Nachmad, 2:199.
2. JACOB DE, of Italy, wrote ברית יעקב, a great collectaneum of diverse matters (Livorno, 1800): רנו ליעקב, novellas on the treatises Chullin and Temura (ibid. 1810): — מזבה כפרה, another collectaneum (ibid.).
3. ZIDKIA DE, a brother of Benjamin, wrote הלקט שבלי, on Jewish rites and precepts (Venice, 1546; Sulzbach, 1699; Dubno, 1794). See Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1:1001; 3:961; 4:962; Schorr, Kritische Untersuchung uber das Werk Schibbale ha-Leketh in Zijjon (Frankforton-the-Main, 1841), 1:147 sq.; Furst. Bibl. Jud. 3:100. (B.P.)
