Pesaro was born in
Ferrara in 1818, where as a young man he established a cultural and
vocational training center. He was a cousin of the legislator
Isacco Pesaro Maurogonato. In 1846, Pesaro belonged to the local committee which organized an uprising against the
papal government and was a member of the National Assembly, along with 2 other Jews, of the
Roman republic of 1849. After the failure of the
1848 Revolution he lived in
Venice until the establishment of the
Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Afterward he returned to Ferrara, where he was active in both
Jewish and general public life. He also served the new government, supporting the
risorgimento, holding public offices tasked with assisting managing
education and
finance. Pesaro published various
monographs on
Italian Jewish history, in particular a work on the history of the Jews of Ferrara in 1878. His works also included a piece on
Abraham Farissol, where he claimed his
polemical work Magen Avraham was actually written in 1512, and a work which attributed the migration of Jews into
Cento due to
antisemitic violence in
Pieve di Cento. Pesaro died suddenly on August 31, 1882 at the age of 64. == References ==