- DA COSTA, ISAAC
- a Dutch poet, born at Amsterdam, of Jewish parents; turned Christian, and after the death of Bilderdijk was chief poet of Holland (1798-1860).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
DA COSTA, ISAAC
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