Alexander Crescenzi () was a seventeenth-century mathematician, translator, and scholar living in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
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. He was a
Jewish
convert to Christianity.
Crescenzi became celebrated on account of his report, which he edited with mathematical notes, on the 1660 eruption of
Mount Vesuvius. He also translated the ''Tradado de Chocolate'' ("Treatise on Chocolate") of
Antonio Colmener de Ledesma from Spanish into Italian, published in Rome in 1667 with notes by Alexander Vitrioli.
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17th-century Italian mathematicians
17th-century Italian writers
17th-century Italian male writers
Converts to Christianity from Judaism
Italian people of Jewish descent
People of Italian-Jewish descent
Writers from Rome
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