RIQUETTI, JOSEPH SHALLIṬ BEN ELIEZER:
Scholar of the seventeenth century. He spent his youth at Safed, and subsequently settled at Verona. There in 1646 he published Gerondi's book "Yiḥus ha-Ẓaddiḳim." He then published at Amsterdam a map of Palestine under the title "Ḥokmat ha-Mishkan" or "Iggeret Meleket ha-Mishkan." In 1676 he went to Mantua, where he was busy with a second edition of his "Yiḥus," which was subsequently published in that city.
Bibliography:
- Zunz, in Itinerary of R. Benjamin of Tudela, ii. 286, § 109, s.v., London, 1841;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. p. 1526;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 190.
