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(CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY TRACT) - (Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino). Limmud HaMeshihim BeKitzur / Dottrina Christiana Breve.. First Edition. Text in Hebrew and Italian. Hebrew prepared by Giovanni Battista Jona. ff. (4), 64. Ex-library. Lightly browned. Contemporary limp vellum, light wear. 4to. Vinograd, Rome 32. Rome: Sacra Congregatione di Propaganda Fide, 1658. Giovanni Battista Jona, formerly, Judah Jonah of Safed, was a Jewish convert to Christianity who, along with the censor Domenico Gerosolimitano (originally, Rabbi Samuel Vivas of Jerusalem), served as scribe to the Vatican.