Aron Fernando, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1761
Place of Birth: Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: translator
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Aron Fernando
- Aron (Aaron) Fernandez (or Fernandes according to some sources, or Fernando, as he authored) (Livorno, 1761 – 1828) was a jewish-italian teacher of ancient and new languages, and a translator.
- Considered an extremist by the civil and religious (Jewish and Christian) authorities of Leghorn because of his Jacobin sympathies.
- Known through the official reprimands to his writings, some of which he managed to publish.
- Anong them: an annotated Italian translation of Les Nuits ChampĂŞtres by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveaux, written in 1792 and eventually published only in 1803. Lo spettatore libero ovvero speculazioni filosofiche sulla rigenerazione politica, e morale dello spirito umano, published in Milan, anno II della LibertĂ (1793). an Italian translation of Tom Paine's pamphlet Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance.
- On June 29, 1796, Fernando even managed to meet Napoleon passing through Livorno, to plead his support for the work.
- The translation was ultimately not published, but Fernando was expelled from Livorno because of it. The Progetto filosofico di una completa riforma del culto e dell'educazione politico-morale del popolo ebreo, a radical proposal for the reform of Judaism, announced to appear in two tomes by 1810.
- The first volume was indeed surreptitiously printed in 1813 by Marenigh in Livorno; after a long series of remands to the censor, which lasted till 1818, and with the changing political climate of the Restoration, almost all printed copies were confiscated and destroyed.
- The manuscript of the second tome, submitted to the French censor, is conserved at the French National Archives in Paris.
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