Close to the "Judengasse" in the 18th Century was the Tommasini Typography that published, in Gorizia, the first text with Hebrew fonts; a collection of Italian, French, Friulian, German, Carniolan, English, Greek and Hebrew compositions and poems in 1779, including the Hebrew text of the Lazzaro Gentili’s poem “la Tortorella” (The Earthly Dove).
Two texts of Elia Morpurgo (1740-1830), a Jew from Gradisca, were published. A speech on the “Patent of Toleration” issued by Joseph II and a translation of “Hebrew Talks About Tolerance and Happiness” by Naftali Herz Weisel.