Isacco Lampronti (1679-1756), physician and philosopher, was born in Ferrara on 3 February 1679. Losing his father Jamuele at the age of six, he found a wise and safe guide in his mother. He obtained a degree in Medicine in Padua and continued his theological course under the guidance of Isacco Contarini. After travelling, he returned to Ferrara to his house in Via Vignatagliata 33 – in the heart of the ghetto –, welcomed by testimonies of esteem and honoured with the title of Haver (friend) by the Rabbinical Academy. He perfected and expanded his knowledge at the Rabbinical Academy of Mantua, where he studied the Talmud. In 1701 he returned to Ferrara, where he was given the title of rabbi. Thirty years old, he was appointed chief instructor of the Rabbinical Academy of Ferrara, a position he held for more than forty years, receiving, in 1743, the title of president of the Academy. While he dedicated himself to teaching and the profession of medicine, he composed a colossal work: an alphabetical repertoire of all the canons, rites, laws, institutions and Talmudic maxims, with an indication of the places of the Talmud, from where they are derived and the authors who have treated them, a Talmudic encyclopeadia entitled Paḥad Itzhak ("The Fear of Isaac").  A small square in the ghetto was dedicated to Isacco Lampronti, between the current Via Vignatagliata and Via Vittoria.