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Thomas de Pinedo (1614 – 13 November 1679) was a Jewish scholar best known for his detailed commentary on Stephan of Byzantium's Ethnica.

Life

Thomas de Pinedo was born in 1614 in Trancoso, Portugal, during the period of the Iberian Union. He studied at the Jesuit Imperial College in Madrid, Spain, where he learned Latin and Greek.

De Pinedo fled to the Dutch Republic to escape the Inquisition. While praising his education and avoiding censure of Christianity itself, he pointedly criticized the Inquisition and its supporters, once writing "I am ashamed and reproach myself for having been useful to such Christians". He completed his edition of Stephan's Ethnica with Latin translation and commentary while in Amsterdam. He dedicated the work to Gaspar Ibáñez de Segovia, historian, bibliophile, and consort marquis of Mondejar.

He died on 13 November 1679 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. De Segovia later wrote to the converso poet Miguel de Barrios of his regret that De Pinedo had died without converting from Judaism to Christianity.

Works

Cover of the 1725 edition of De Pinedo's work

De Pinedo is best known for his edition of Stephan of Byzantium's Ethnica, which he provided in Greek with a parallel Latin translation and commentary, including numerous citations from Jewish historians and travelers such as Josephus and Benjamin of Tudela.

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