Meir di Gabrielle Magino

Meir di Gabrielle Magino was a French Jewish silk-manufacturer who lived at Venice. In 1587 he was invited by the Pope Sixtus V to Rome to introduce into the Papal States his process of extracting silk thread from the cocoon twice a year.

Magiano published a book about his process of extracting silk entitled Dialoghi di M. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo venetiano sopra l'utili sue invenzioni circa la seta (Venice, 1588). MAgiano also secured a second patent to a new process for polishing mirrors and colored cut glass with a special kind of oil and was granted the exclusive right to produce special wine bottles.