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 * Obituaries**

by: Wyatt Culberson

Abraham Hiyya de Boton (c. 1560-c. 1605) (Hebrew: אברהם די בוטון) was a Talmudist and rabbi, a pupil of Samuel de Medina, who later dwelt for the most part at Salonica as rabbi and leader of a Talmudic academy. The name "Ḥiyya" was given him during a dangerous sickness (Ḥiyya = "life"; "may he live!"). He was for a time rabbi at Polia (Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 95); in 1601 he lived in Palestine (David Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, pp. 47b, 51a), and in 1603 was at Constantinople (Michael, ib.). He died between 1603 and 1609.

Henry Chettle (c. 1564 – c. 1607) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era. The son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer, he was apprenticed in 1577 and became a member of the Stationer's Company in 1584, traveling to Cambridge on their behalf in 1588. His career as a printer and author is shadowy. He may have set up some of the tracts printed in response to Martin Marprelate. In 1591, he entered into partnership with William Hoskins and John Danter, two stationers. They published a good many ballads, and some plays, including a surreptitious and botched first quarto of Romeo and Juliet, to which it is suggested Chettle added lines and stage directions.

Paolo Farinati (also called as Farinato or Farinato degli Uberti; c. 1524 - c. 1606) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, active in mainly in his native Verona, but also in Mantua and Venice. to a style similar to that of Paolo Veronese.

Giovanni Balducci, called Il Cosci after his maternal uncle, (c. 1560 — c. 1600) was an Italian mannerist painter. Born in Florence, he was trained by Giovanni Battista Naldini. William Fullbecke (1560 - 1603?) was an English playwright, historian, lawyer and legal scholar, who did pioneering work in international law. He described himself as "maister of Artes, and student of the lawes of England."