Lelio Della Torre
Illustration — Lelio Della Torre Lelio Hillel Della Torre (1805–1871) was an Italian Jewish scholar and poet writing in Italian, German, French and Hebrew, best known for his critical translation of the Book of Psalms (1845, 1854). He was the son of Solomon Jehiel Raphael ha-Kohen, chief rabbi of Cuneo, Piedmont. His father died in 1807, and Della Torre grew up as an orphan with his mother's family in Casale Monferrato, and after the death of his maternal grandfather in Asti, with his mother's brother, Sabbatai Elhanan Treves.
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Lelio Della Torre
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- 1805 · Cuneo.
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- Kingdom of Italy
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- writer · poet · translator · rabbi · teacher
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- Judaism · Classic Rabbinic literature · Jewish liturgy · prayer
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- Italian · Hebrew
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His uncle moved to Turin in 1820, being named chief rabbi of the Jewish communities of Piemont. Della Torre studied Greek, Latin and Italian in Turin, from the age of sixteen working as a private tutor in order to support his mother and three sisters. From 1823, he was teacher for Hebrew philology and biblical exegesis at the Jewish Collegio Colonna e Finzi in Turin. In 1826 he was ordained as rabbi, acting as rabbi of the Turin community from 1827. He was married to Anna Bolaffio, with whom he had seven children.
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1805
Lelio Della Torre born at Cuneo.
1871
Lelio Della Torre died at Padua.
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- 1.Torre, L.D. Cinque discorsi. Minerva. 1834.
- 2.Torre, Lelio Della. Orazioni per ordinazioni rabbiniche: con un discorso preliminare e un' appendice. Pietro Naratovich. 25 November 1852.
- 3.Torre, Lelio Della. Orazioni due per ordinazioni rabbiniche. A. Bianchi. 25 November 1863.
- 4.Torre, Lelio Della. Ṭal yaldut .: . ha-shirim asher ḥibarti mi-shenat 574 ʻad 589 ṿe-nosfu . shirai ha-aḥaronim ḳeratim be-shem Egle Ṭal. 25 November 1868.
- 5.Torre, Lelio della. Pensieri sulle lezioni sabbatiche del Pentateuco. Padova [Tip. Crescini]. 25 November 1872.
- 6.Orazioni postume. 25 November 1878.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 21
- 1821–1828 Hebräische und italienische Gedichte
- 1826, 1827 Hebräische Fabeln im biblischen Style
- 1828, Specchio ossia Tavola sinottica delle conjugazioni ebraiche
- 1830, 1831 Italienische Gedichte
- Torre, L.D. Cinque discorsi. Minerva. 1834.
- 1835 Discorso funebre letto nelle solenni esequie di S. M. l'Imperatore et Re Francesco I
- 1842 Della Condizione degli Ebrei sotto l'impero germanico nel medio ere
- 1843 Saggio di traduzione delle Ore del mattino di Mosè Mendelsohn
- 1852 Prose israelitiche https://archive.org/details/proseisraelitic00torrgoog
- Torre, Lelio Della. Orazioni per ordinazioni rabbiniche: con un discorso preliminare e un' appendice. Pietro Naratovich. 25 November 1852.
- 1845, 1854 I Salmi volgarizzati sul testo massoretico ed illustrati con argomenti e note (2 vols.)
- 1846 Preghiere degl’Israeliti secondo il rito tedesco
- Torre, Lelio Della. Orazioni due per ordinazioni rabbiniche. A. Bianchi. 25 November 1863.
- Torre, Lelio Della. Ṭal yaldut .: . ha-shirim asher ḥibarti mi-shenat 574 ʻad 589 ṿe-nosfu . shirai ha-aḥaronim ḳeratim be-shem Egle Ṭal. 25 November 1868.
- 1869 Eglei Ṭal ("Dewdrops", Hebrew poems)
- 1869 Poésies Hébraïques
- 1870 Iscrizioni Sepolcrali
- Torre, Lelio della. Pensieri sulle lezioni sabbatiche del Pentateuco. Padova [Tip. Crescini]. 25 November 1872.
- Orazioni postume. 25 November 1878.
- Salomon Wininger, Große Jüdische National-Biographie, vol. VI, 122f.
- Riccardo Di Segni: Della Torre, Lelio Hillel. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI) vol. 37 (1989).
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The authorities additionally record the heading Lelio Hillel Della Torre. His recorded languages were Italian and Hebrew. His recorded confession was Judaism. Torre worked in Judaism, Classic Rabbinic literature, Jewish liturgy, prayer and lyric poetry. Recorded as writer, poet, translator, rabbi and teacher.
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