Sommo, Judah Leone ben-Isaac
- Sommo, Judah Leone ben-Isaac
(1527–92)
Italian dramatist. Sommo staged plays which were presented at the court of the Gonzago duke in Mantua. He was a prolific writer in Italian and Hebrew; his best works are his ‘Dialogues on the Art of the Stage’ (Italian, 1565), and a comedy written in Hebrew, composed in Renaissance style but based on a Jewish legend. This is the earliest stage drama in Hebrew which is still extant. He built a synagogue in Mantua in 1585 on his own land.
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