Judah ben Moses Romano
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
- ↑ Judah ben Moses of Rome, Yehuda Romano, Leone Romano.
- ↑ 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] .
- ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on June 13, 2006. Retrieved August 10, 2007.
- ^ Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, History of Jewish Philosophy (1997), pp. 299, 352.
- ^ Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Italian
- ^ Umberto Eco , Serendipities (English translation 1999), p. 64.
- ↑ Chapters On Jewish Literature - Chapter XVIII. Italian Jewish Poetry (by Israel Abrahams)
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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 |