Elijah ben Solomon Corcos

Elijah ben Solomon Corcos was Italian banker of the sixteenth century. He was a member of a family originally from Corcos in the province of Valladolid, Castile, whose members, after 1492, were established in Italy and in Fez.

In Partnership with his brother Joshua, he carried on an extensive banking business in Rome, which they had established on June 11, 1537. On the same day he took part in the conference held by the Jewish bankers, the object of which was to fix certain business usages which were to form the basis of an arrangement with Christian bankers.

He was an active member of the congregation in Rome, whose financial affairs were entrusted to him. In 1581 he is found as one of the delegates of the congregation who were appointed to confer with the tax-farmers of Romagna, Lombardy, and Tuscany concerning the security which the congregation in Rome was to furnish for them. He was a rabbinical scholar.