Abramo Colorni, born around 1544 and dead in 1599, was an Italian-Jewish polymath of Mantua, an engineer, architect, mathematician, cryptographer, alchemist, inventor and merchant. He studied at the University of Ferrara, was hired in 1572 to design arms for the Gonzaga family and later worked as a master engineer for the dukes of Ferrara. He then spent nine years as a court Jew and alchemist to Rudolf II, a role through which he carried Italian learning to Baden-Wurttemberg and Prague. He wrote Scotographia, a treatise on cryptography published in 1593, and was also known as a clockmaker, stage magician and inventor of a new kind of revolver.
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Abramo Colorni (Abram or Abraham, Colorno or Calorno, sometimes Colorini, c. 1544–1599) was an Italian-Jewish polymath and Renaissance man.
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Abramo Colorni (Abram or Abraham, Colorno or Calorno, sometimes Colorini, c. 1544-1599) was an Italian-Jewish polymath and Renaissance man.
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Abramo Colorni (Abram or Abraham, Colorno or Calorno, sometimes Colorini, c. 1544-1599) was an Italian-Jewish polymath and Renaissance man.
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He is the author of the 1593 treatise on cryptography, Scotographia.
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An engineer, architect, mathematician, chiromancer, cryptographer, alchemist, inventor, magus (magician) and merchant, Colorni spent nine years as a Court Jew for Rudolf II.
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