Porchetus Salvagus (Victor Porchetto de Salvatici) (died c. 1315), sometimes referred to as Porchetus, was an Italian

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monk from

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. Variants of his name include: ''Porcheus de Salva ignis'', ''Salvagus'', ''Salvagus Porchetus'', ''Porchetus Salvagus'', ''Salvaticus'', ''de Salvaticis'', ''Victor Porchetto de' Salvatici'', ''Porchetto de Salvatici'', and ''Porchetus de Salvaticis'', etc. He is known for his

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work from c. 1303, ''Victoria adversus impios Hebraeos, in qua tum ex sacris litteris tum ex dictis Talmud ac cabbilistarum et aliorum omnium authorum quos hebraei recipiunt monstratur veritas catholicae fidei'' (which would not be printed until 1520). The first part of his book enumerates proofs to demonstrate the epistemic truth of

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from the

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, and the second part similarly instances proofs from the

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and

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. Porchetus' material was not original, copied mostly from the ''Pugio fidei'' of Ramon Martí of Catalan. Porchetus' book, in turn, was copied by later writers, such as

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. Its introduction (prologus) was reprinted by

Johann Christoph Wolf Johann Christoph Wolf (born at Wernigerode, February 21 1683; died at Hamburg, July 25 1739) was a German Christian Hebraist, polyhistor, and collector of books. He studied at Wittenberg, and traveled in Holland and England in the intere ...

in his ''Bibliotheca Hebraea'' (vol. 2, 1124–27).

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