# Benjamin Consolo

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**Benjamin Consolo** (Italian: *Beniamino Consolo*; 1806–1887) was an Italian [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language) writer and translator. Consolo was born in [Ancona](/source/Ancona), where he studied at the [Talmud Torah](/source/Talmud_Torah) under the instruction of Rabbi David A. Vivant. He studied Italian with Count Pietro Alety, a student of Dante, and then [Latin](/source/Latin_language) with Lorenzo Barili. He was appointed secretary of the Jewish community at Ancona, and later of that at [Florence](/source/Florence), where he began translating Hebrew works into Italian.[1]

Consolo's works include: *I Capitoli dei Padri, Trattato Misnico Morale con Commenti*, an Italian translation of Abot; *I Doveri de' Cuori* (Prato, 1847); *Volgarizzamento del Libro di Job* (Florence, 1874); *Volgarizzamento delle Lamentazioni di Geremi*; and *Il Salterio o Canti Nazionali del Popolo d'Israele Spiegati e Commentati* (Florence, 1885). He was also the author of several shorter essays and poems, and published a translation of "The Duties of the Heart", an eleventh century moral treatise by Maestro Bechai originally written in Arabic and translated into Hebrew by [Judah ben Tibon](/source/Judah_ben_Saul_ibn_Tibbon).[2]

His wife, Regine, published an Italian translation of the *Enchiridion d'Egitto*. The composer and virtuoso [Federico Consolo](/source/Federico_Consolo) was his son.

## References

1. Servi, Flaminio (ed.) (1886). [*Il vessillo israelitico rivista mensile per la storia, la scienza e lo spirito del giudaismo*](https://books.google.com/books?id=R_JoQRhxsucC&pg=PA147). pp. 147–150.

1. ["The Athenæum Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts"](https://books.google.com/books?id=akMxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA618). Vol. 1490. London: James Holmes. 17 May 1856. p. 618.

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