Judah ben Moses Romano

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Judah ben Moses Romano (around 1293 - after 1330) was a Jewish philosopher and translator in Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries. He was a cousin of Immanuel of Rome .

Judah was an important early translator of works of scholastic philosophy from Latin into Hebrew. He was the first Hebrew translator of Thomas Aquinas ; he also translated Albertus Magnus , Aegidius Romanus , Alexander of Alexandria , Domenicus Gundissalinus and Angelo of Camerino .

He translated parts of Dante's Divina Comedia and organized public readings from it. Together with Immanuel and Kalonymos he was employed at the court of Robert of Anjou .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judah ben Moses of Rome, Yehuda Romano, Leone Romano.
  2. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on February 5, 2007. Retrieved January 29, 2007., the Jewish Encyclopedia gives 1286 as the date of birth [1] .
  3. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on June 13, 2006. Retrieved August 10, 2007.
  4. ^ Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, History of Jewish Philosophy (1997), pp. 299, 352.
  5. ^ Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Italian
  6. ^ Umberto Eco , Serendipities (English translation 1999), p. 64.
  7. ↑ Chapters On Jewish Literature - Chapter XVIII. Italian Jewish Poetry (by Israel Abrahams)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Judah ben Moses Romano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romano, Leone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH around 1293
DATE OF DEATH after 1330