August 8 1385 – 30 Av 5145
Rome
The Roman Senate awarded the Jewish community a tax rebate of thirty
florins to exempt Jewish doctors Angelo di Manuela and his father from
payment. Physician Salomo di Sabaldachio of the city of Perugia was later
similarly privileged. The doctors lived in the Trastevere quarter, by the
Vatican and the ghetto, and had earned this recognition – as well as the
citizenship granted them by Pope Boniface IX – for providing medical care
to Rome’s sick, particularly the poor.
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