Moses Cordovero

Physician; lived at Leghorn in the seventeenth century. Conforte praises him as a good physician, and also on account of his scholarship and philanthropy. He was always eager to secure the release of prisoners, through hispersonal influence as well as by ransom. Cordovero died at an advanced age.

Bibliography:

  * Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 50a;
  * Carmoly, Histoire des Médecins Juifs, p. 173;
  * Kayserling, Bibl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. p. 72.



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