Abraham ben Mordecai Galante (died 1560) was an Italian kabbalist born in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 at the beginning of the 16th-century. Abraham, like his father Mordecai

Galante (pedigree)

Galante was a Jewish family which flourished at the beginning of the 16th century in Rome, and the head of which, Mordecai, was a Spanish exile of the Angel family. His courteous manners won for him from the Roman nobles the surname "Galantuomo" , a name which the family retained...

 and his brother Moses

Moses Galante (the Elder)

Moses ben Mordecai Galante , was a 16th-century rabbi. He was a disciple of Joseph Caro, and was ordained by him when but twenty-two years of age. He wrote sermons for a wedding, for Passover, and for a thanksgiving service, printed with the younger Obadiah Bertinoro's commentary on the Book of...

 of Safed

Safed

Safed , is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and of Israel. Due to its high elevation, Safed experiences warm summers and cold, often snowy, winters...

, is represented by his contemporaries as a man of high character who led a holy life. Being wealthy, he erected a splendid mausoleum over the tomb of Simon ben Yoḥai at Meron

Meron

A meron or half-instanton is a Euclidean space-time solution of the Yang-Mills field equations. It is a singular non-self-dual solution of topological charge 1/2. The instanton is believed to be composed of two merons....

, which is still admired.

He was the author of the following works:

• Ḳin'at Setarim, a commentary on Lamentations
  Book of Lamentations
  The Book of Lamentations ) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah. It mourns the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in the 6th Century BCE....
  
  , based upon the Zohar
  Zohar
  The Zohar is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on Mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology...
  
  , edited by his son Samuel in the collection Ḳol Bokim (Venice, 1589)
• Yeraḥ Yakar, a commentary on the Zohar, the first part of which (Genesis) was abbreviated by Abraham Azulai
  Abraham Azulai
  Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fes, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Palestine and settled in Hebron....
  
   and included in his Zohore Ḥammah
• Zekut Abot, a commentary on the Sayings of the Fathers, mentioned by Hananiah of Monselice in his commentary on the Pirḳe Shirah. Galante was also the author of halakic decisions, which are still extant in manuscript.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• Azulai
  Chaim Joseph David Azulai
  Chaim Joseph David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia , commonly known as the Chida , was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.- Biography :Azulai was born in Jerusalem, where he received his education...
  
  , Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.;
• Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 89;
• Orient. Lit. vi.211;
• Hermann Vogelstein and Paul Rieger
  Paul Rieger
  Paul Warren Rieger QSO JP was Mayor of Palmerston North from 1985 to 1998. He is currently deputy chairman of Horizons Regional Council.-References:...
  
  , Geschichte der Juden in Rom, p. 86.