R' Menachem Raphael Cohen-Rapa

about his son Zalman: He is profiled in History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua by Shlomo Simonsohn,Tel-Aviv University (Kiryat Sepher, Ltd.), 1977 Jerusalem: "Cohen-Rapa, Solomon called Zalman son of Menahem Rafael, rabbi in Mantua and Venice in the sixteenth century. He was a relative of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen and was one of the rabbis of the Ashkenazi Yeshiva of Mantua. Cohen-Rapa belonged to the Tamari faction in the Tamari-Venturozzo divorce scandal. Some of his responsa and correspondence have been preserved in manuscript. He died during the plague of 1575-76, and Rabbi Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen euologized him (in "Shneim Asar Derashoth", no. 11).,