Raffaele Zovenzoni (1431 – circa 1484) was an Italian

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and writer. He was born in

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, and received his early education. He then studied law at Padua. He studied under

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, and thereafter taught in Capo d'Istria (now

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), where he was patronized by the proveditore of Venice, Marcello.The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe: René of Anjou in Italy
by Oren Margolis (2016), page 105. He also lived in Trieste ( 1466-1470). He was prompted by

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, Prince-Bishop of Trent, to write an antisemitic hymn about

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.Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial
by R. Po-chia Hsia, Bojia Xia (1992), page 51.

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