be distributed among all Jews, ordering that the "Me'or 'Enayim" be burned. But, Joseph Caro dying before it was ready for him to sign, the decree was not promulgated, and the rabbis of Mantua contented themselves with forbidding the reading of the work by Jews under twenty-five years of age. The "Me'or 'Enayim" attracted the attention of many Christian Hebraists, who translated parts of it into Latin. Dei Rossi was the author of a collection of poems (Venice, n.d.), among which are several of a liturgical character. Joseph Jacobs and Isaac Broydé, "Ross, Azariah ben Moses dei". Jewish Encyclopedia (Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906) cite the following bibliography: Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi, Dizionario, p. 280; Zunz, in Kerem Ḥemed, v. 131–138, vii. 119–124; Rapoport, ib. v. 159–162; Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 747; Jost, Gesch. des Judenthums und Seiner Sekten, iii. 123; Grätz, Gesch. ix. 405 et seq.; Zunz, Literaturgeschichte, p. 417; Ginsburg, Levita's Massoreth ha-Massoreth, p. 52. Notes Editions Azariah de Rossi, The Light of the Eyes Translated from the Hebrew with an introduction and annotations by Joanna Weinberg (New Haven, Yale UP, 2001), 864 pp. (Yale Judaica 31). External links Description of Me'or Eynaim Philosophers of Judaism 16th-century Italian physicians 1510s births 1578 deaths Rabbis from Mantua 16th-century Italian rabbis Writers from Mantua