Judah ben Moses RomanoJudah ben Moses of Rome, Yehuda Romano, Leone Romano. (c. 1293 – after 1330, the Jewish Encyclopedia gives 1286 as date of birth .) was an Italian Jewish philosopher and translator of the fourteenth century. 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; he also translated Albertus Magnus, Giles of Rome, Alexander of Alessandri, Domenicus Gundissalinus and Angelo of Camerino.Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, History of Jewish Philosophy (1997), pp. 299, 352.
He translated sections of the Divine Comedy of Dante, and gave public readings of it.Umberto Eco, Serendipities (English translation 1999), p. 64. He was employed by Robert of Naples,Chapters On Jewish Literature - Chapter XVIII. Italian Jewish Poetry (by Israel Abrahams) along with Immanuel and Kalonymus ben Kalonymus.
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