Isaac Cardoso
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Isaac (Fernando) Cardoso was a Jewish physician, philosopher, and polemic writer.
Life
He was born of
After studying medicine, philosophy, and natural sciences at
Fernando (his Marrano name) left Spain, probably to escape from the Inquisition, and went with his brother Miguel, who had also studied medicine, to Venice, where both openly embraced Judaism, Fernando changing his name to "Isaac." After a short stay in Venice he settled in Verona, where he remained until his death, highly honored by Jews and Christians.
Works
Aside from the works already mentioned, Cardoso published a comprehensive treatise on cosmogony, physics, medicine, philosophy, theology, and natural sciences, printed at Venice in 1673 under the title Philosophia Libera in Septem Libros Distributa, and dedicated to the doge and senate of that city. In this work, which critically discusses the various philosophical systems, he appears as a decided opponent of the
This "learned, God-fearing physician," as he is designated by the pious
References
- ISSN 2576-4810.
Bibliography
- Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto: Isaac Cardoso: a Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981. ISBN 0-295-95824-3
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Richard Gottheil and Meyer Kayserling (1901–1906). "Cardoso, Isaac (Fernando)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.- Isaac Cardozo's entry in the Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007)
- (in Spanish) Brief biography
- Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos, Chapter on the blood libel (1649), selections in English and Spanish (pedagogical edition) with introduction, notes, and bibliography in Open Iberia/América (open access teaching anthology)
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