Judah ben Moses Romano
Judah ben Moses Romano[1] (born c. 1293, died after 1330[2]) was an Italian Jewish philosopher and translator of the thirteen and fourteenth centuries. He was a cousin of Immanuel of Rome.
He was a significant early translator of works of scholastic philosophy from Latin into Hebrew. He was the first Hebrew translator of Thomas Aquinas;[3] he also translated Albertus Magnus, Giles of Rome, Alexander of Alessandri, Domenicus Gundissalinus and Angelo of Camerino.[4]
He translated sections of the Divine Comedy of Dante,[5] and gave public readings of it.[6] He was employed by Robert of Naples,[7] along with Immanuel and Kalonymos.
Notes
- ↑ Judah ben Moses of Rome, Yehuda Romano, Leone Romano.
- ↑ [1], the Jewish Encyclopedia gives 1286 as date of birth [2].
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ 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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