	70	Thousands of prisoners from Judea are brought to Italy
	1275-1475	Rise of Jewish banking in Italy
	c.1450- c.1510	Obadiah ben Abraham Bartenura, author of the standard commentary on the Mishnah
	1489-1534	Gershom Soncino, Hebrew printer active
	1463	Trattato del' arte del ballo (Treatise on the Art of Dancing) by Gugliemo ebreo Pesaro (c. 1420-c. 1484)
	1516	The first ghetto is established in Venice
	1516	Publishing house of David Bomberg in Venice begins issuing Hebrew texts
	1549	David Bomberg's last publication is issued.
	1553	Pope Julius III orders the burning of the Talmud
	1570?	Salamone Rossi born
	1571	Rabbi Leon Modena (1571-1648), champion of Jewish art music, born
	1573	Publication of Me'or Eynayyim Bible scholarship by Rabbi Azarya deRossi (no relation to Salamone)
	1583	Rabbi Simone Luzzato of Venice (1583-1663) born
	1587	Rossi hired as violinist for Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga
	1589	Rossi's first publication: three-part canzonets
	1600	Rossi's first book of madrigals published
	1607	Rossi's trio sonatas published
	1622	Rossi's synagogue music Hashirim asher lishlomo is published: the first collection of choral music for the synagogue Listen to "Adon Olam"
	1628	Rossi's last publication: madrigaletti for two voices
	1628	Rabbi Modena establishes the Academmia degl' Impediti, a music academy in the Venice ghetto.
	1630?	Rossi dies
	1681	Cantata ebraica by Carlo Grossi composed for the Shomerim La-Boker confraternity in Venice
	1724	Benedetto Marcello publishes his L'estro poetico armonico, a setting in Italian of the first 50 Psalms of the Bible. Twelve of them are based on Jewish liturgical melodies that the composer heard in the synagogues of Venice.
	1732 1733	On Hoshana Rabba, the Jews of Casale Monferrato perform an elaborate musical extravaganza with choir and orchestra. The musical director was Giuseppe Vita Clava.
	1743	Concerted music (by Rabbi Raphael Emmanuel Hay Ricchi?) is performed at the inauguration of the new synagogue in Livorno
	1774	Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-?) composes an oratorio, Esther, based on a Hebrew libretto by Rabbi Jacob Raphael Saraval
	1821 1826	In Livorno, publication of polyphonic synagogue music by Michele Bolaffi (1768-1842) and David Garzia
	1842	Verdi's opera Nabucco about the exile of the Jews in Babylon
	1848	Emancipation Edict. The walls of the Roman ghetto are demolished.
	1892	Libro dei canti d'Israele, a systematic collection of Sephardi melodies from Livorno, edited by Federico Consolo
	1895	Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), Jewish Italian composer, born
	1912	Leo Levi (1912-1982) scholar of Italian Jewish oral musical traditions, born
	1967	Canti liturgici ebraici di rito Italiano (Jewish Liturgical Melodies of the Italian Rite) transcribed with commentary by Elio Piattelli
	2003	The Zamir Chorale of Boston Mission to Italy

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