MOLKO (1500-1532)  , a Marano kabbalist, who proclaimed the advent of the Messiah . He was associated with David Reubeni, who also made Messianic claims . Molko, after a chequered career, was condemned to death by the ecclesiastical court at Mantua . He was offered his life by the emperor Charles V. if he would return to Christianity, in which he had been educated . He refused, and died at the stake . (I .