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successof which lie devoted all his energies. Alatri died at the age of fifty-six^two inontlis lufoie his His work on hank reform, entitled "Siil father. Riordinaniento delle Banehe d'Eniissiouu iu Italia," was puhlished in Home in 1888. BiBi.iO(iRAPiiY: Berliner, Oesch. dcr Juihn in Ronu II. 1S3, auii,



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M. B.

ALATRI, SAMTTEIi:

Italian iiolilician. communal worker, and orator; born at Home in ISO,"); died 18H!(. For more than sixty years he there Jlay 2(*. led the .Jewish community of his native city, and bore the brunt of its contests for religious and political freedom. 1 1 is public career bejran at an early age. 'Whenonly twenty-three years old he was called u]>on to enter the council of the community, the material and spiritual interests of which he thereafter served

with Zealand devotion. IMO.") he

From 1840 to made annual

tours to foreign countries, coming thereby in contact

with prominent Jews in France and in Kngland, whoins]>ired him with new hoiies and cncourjiged him to persevere iu th(! struggle for justice. Knowing, however, that, in order to lead to liappiness,

was not congenial to liim. and after a few years of parliamentary activity he returned to the narrower sphere of the city and the Jewish community. The services rendered by Alatri to his native city were acknowledged by the syndic of Home who at Alatri's funeral sjtid: "The city fif Home loved him like a father, and now she mourns his death like that of a father." The following are some of his published siieeclies: "Biscorsi al Dottor Alliert Cohn," 1M70: " Discorso Pronunziato nella 8cuola del Tempio il 23 -Vprile, is8r' " Paroh- in Occasione della Proi'essione di Fede," 1SH.3; " Per la Inaugunizione del CoUegio ever,



Habbinico Italiano C'elebrata nella Scuola del Tempio."

Gennaio, 1887,

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BiBi.in(R.pnv Berliner, Clcsch. Orr Juilcn in Rom, II. 139, 141. i;ii, M>--^: Viitrelstein and Kleger, Ocsch. der JiuUn in liiniu vol. il. lindex).

M. B.

ALATRINI Name

of a distinguished Jewish derived from the name of the town .Matii, It has been often transcribed as Alterini and Aletrini. Alatrino and Degli Alatrini are other lorins often occurring. The following are the known luembers of this family

family

in Italy,

Menabem

Jebtel

I

I

Abraham

Josepb I

I

Ella

Matlattaiali <.v. cent.)

freedom must be sup)ili'mente(l by educa1

Alatrizti

Soloiiidii

ion, A-latri <lcvoteil his I

.siiiiinei

.iiitrl.

Isaac (xvil. cent.)

Jfihanaii Juduli (.wl.-xvll. cent.)

special atteiiliiin to foreign scholastic institu-

I

tions, accumtdating ex ]ierience which he used for the bcnelit of the

Daut'hter)

(

N'atban (Jedldlali)

Talmud Tondi in Home. TheHnman Jews looked upon him as their legitimate leader and chose him

of

spokesman of the deputjitious that anmially waited

a small town

on the poi)e(Gregory XVI.). The tiletoall progress, could not help

Abraham ben Menahem

latter, Ik

in;,'

though hoscliarmed by

the oratorical gifts of Alatri, whom he nicknamed "our Cicero," and to whom, on one occasion, he sjiid " Whenever you have to defend a case of liberty and humanity, come to me." Alatri's iiitluence with the pontilT proved cfTeclive only in individual cases, the geiii-ral position of the Jews remaining as precarious as before. With lheacce.s.sionof Pius IX.. who at fii-st showed himself a friend of progress. Alatii redoubled his activities and cnteri'd into association with some of In appreciation the most inlluential men of Home. of liis intellictual and moral (|ualilies he was elected u director of the l'i>pi's naid<. later the Hanca Ho mana; and it is an iindispuliil fact that the crisis which threatened that institution iu 1M.")I! was warded

by Alatri's foresight. Alatri's elTorts on behalf of his brethren were crowned with success in 187lt, when King Victor Knimanuel entered Home and put an cml to the temponil power of th(' pope. On Oct. 2 of that vear n depulalion, of which Alatri was a mimber. iianded over to the king the result of the ph'biscile by which theinhabitanlsof Ihi' I'apal Ti'rritories declared in favor of annexation l4)llie kingdom of Italy. Alatri was then appointeil one of the commis.sioners lie to reduce to order the chaotic li nances of the city. acrpiilted hiniMlf w ith conspicuous success, and was elected to I'arliamint by the second ilistrict of the city of H(mie. Here he was entrusted with the task Party life, howof adjusting the Italian budget. oil

The

first

known mention

is

that

Fermo,

lived at

Ancona. in 129.5. Alatrini is mentioned as liviuLr, between 1420 and

viiiniiy of

in the

manuscript souk is

in

of an Alatrini

Menahem ben Solomon, who

in ceiitrid Italy.

14:!:!.

£lia ben Joseph ben Jehiel Alatrini



Habbi at

Macenita. Italy, during the second half of the fourHe wrote (1372) a work on educateenth century. tion, "Sefer ha-IIinnuk." still in manuscript and in 13Mi) he cojiied a manuscript for Mosi'S ben Daniel

at Forli.

Isaac ben Abraham Alatrini Habbi at Cingoli.

beginning of the seventeenth century; teacher ami friend of Kliakira During the Easter holidays, b. Samuel Sanguine. 100."), he ])reaehed at Jlodena a sermon on the Song of .Solomon, which was used by him later as a basis for his " Kenaf Heiianim " (The Song-birds' Wing). The work is a sort of haggadic philosoiihical commentary, in live parts, on the Song of Solomon. As the author states in the preface, he has incorporated in his work parlsof the " Dialoghi di Amore" of the "learni'il man and philoso])her Juilah Hofe." that is. I/oIIebneus. The" Kenaf Henaniin " is still unpublished a niauuscript copy isiu the Bodleian Library, Oxford. in the vicinity ol Macerata. at the



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Johanan Judah (Angelo) Alatrini ben Salomon I'oet of the sixteenth and the s*-venleenth Uc was the author (l")<>3i i>f a Hebrew centuries. poem on the commentary of bis gruudfather .Malta