...............................O RABINO DE ITAMARACÁ - 1635 ...............In 1683 the Spanish Sephardic poet, Daniel Levi de Barrios, speaks of the rabbi of Itamaracá, Jacob Lagarto, and informs us that Lagarto wrote a book of aphorisms. Coincidentally this is the same year that Lagarto's personal documents were being deposited in the library at Christ Church College, Oxford, where they remained forgotten for more than 300 years..