Judah ben Moses Romano[1] (c. 1293 – after 1330[2]) 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;[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.
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