Joseph Concio

Joseph ben Gershon Concio (יוסף בן גרשון קונציו, Giuseppe Conzio) was an Italian-Jewish author who lived in Asti and Chieri in the early seventeenth century.

Work
Concio published several poems in Hebrew and Italian, including:


 * Il Canto di Judit (Asti, 1614)
 * Cinque enigmi con la conveniente esposizione (Asti, 1617)
 * Ot le-tovah (Chieri, 1627), an acrostic on Talmudic arguments, which appeared alongside Shir le-siman ha-parashiyyot and Shirim bi-leshon ḥidah meḥubbarim
 * Dibre Ester (Chieri, 1628), an allegorical commentary to Esther, published with Zeh ha-Shulḥan
 * Ma'agal tov (Chieri, 1627–28), comprising seventeen sentences from the Talmud
 * Shir Yehudit (Asti, 1628)
 * Mar'eh ḥayyim (Chieri, 1629), halakic subjects in verse
 * Meḳom binah (Chieri, 1629), comments on certain passages in Proverbs
 * Teḥillat dabar, a treatise on logic
 * Zokher ha-neshamot (unpublished), on the Plague of 1630–31