Porchetus salvaticus
Porchetus Salvaticus ( bl. Around 1315) was an Italian Carthusian and theological author. He was from Genoa . His authorship is certain for a polemical anti-Jewish book that was published in 1520 in Paris by Agostino Giustiniani , Bishop of Nebbio :
- Victoria Porcheti aduersus impios Hebręos, in qua tum ex sacris literis, tum ex dictis Talmud, ac Caballistarum, et aliorum omnium authorum, quos Hebręi recipiunt, monstratur veritas catholicę fidei.
- "Victory of Porchetus against the unbelieving Jews, in which the truth of the Catholic faith is shown partly from the holy scriptures, partly from words of the Talmud and the Kabbalists and all other authors who are valid among the Jews."
Porchetus drew in part from the work Pugio Fidei adversus Mauros et Judaeos by the Dominican Raymundus Martinus , but also had his own knowledge of Hebrew and insight into sources.
He took the title victory from a Jewish work of anti-Christian polemics that had been written shortly before, the Sefer Nizzachon (ספר ניצחון - "Book of Victory").
A copy of Victoria Porcheti was in Martin Luther's library and bears notes from him in his own hand. Luther placed an extensive passage from it, which claims to reproduce a Jewish story about Jesus of Nazareth and the Shem Hamphoras , in German translation at the beginning of his anti-Jewish work Vom Shem Hamphoras (1543).
Porchetus is also credited with a philosophical work De Entibus et Unis and several writings on the (church) history of Genoa.
Works
- Victoria Porcheti. Paris 1520 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Porchetus salvaticus. In: Johann Jakob Hofmann : Lexicon Universale Historico-Geographico-Chronologico-Poetico-Philologicum , Leiden 1698.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanne Trautner-Kromann: Shield and Sword: Jewish Polemics Against Christianity and the Christians in France and Spain from 1100-1500 . Tübingen 1993, p. 102
- ↑ Porchetus Salvaticus: Victoria Porcheti aduersus impios Hebr [a] eos: in qua tum ex sacris literis, tum ex dictis Talmud, ac Caballistaru [m], et alioru [m] omniu [m] authoru [m], quos Hebr [a ] ei recipiu [n] t, monstratur veritas catholic [a] e fidei / Ex Recognitione RP Aug. Iustiniani ordinis Pr [a] edicatorij, episcopi Nebiensis . 1520 ( digitized version on the website of the Badische Landesbibliothek )
- ^ Digitized version of the Latin text from Chapter 11 of Victoria
- ^ Digitized version of Luther's German version in Vom Schem Hamphoras
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porchetus salvaticus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salvatici, Porchetto de ' |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Carthusian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa (unsafe) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 14th Century |