Elijah Delmedigo (1460-1497), philosopher, taught in several Italian centres of learning. He translated some of Averroes commentaries into Latin at the instigation of Pico di Mirandola. In the sphere of religion, Delmedigo represents the tendency to depart from the scholastic attitude in. which religion and philosophy were identified. His most important work was devoted to this end; it was entitled Behinath ha-Dat/s (Investigation of Religion). Events The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone. ... Events May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 – November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar. ...
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DELMEDIGO, a Cretan Jewish family, of whom the following are the most important: ElijahDelmedigo (1 46 0 - 1 497), philosopher, taught in several Italian centres of learning.
In the sphere of religion, Delmedigo represents the tendency to depart from the scholastic attitude in which religion and philosophy were identified.
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591-1655), pupil of Galileo, wrote many books on science and philosophy, and bore a considerable part in initiating the critical movement in Judaism.
Elia del Medigo (also called ElijahDelmedigo and sometimes known to his contemporaries as Helias Cretensis) (c.
He was born in Candia, on the island of Crete, which at that time was under the control of the Venetian Republic, but spent ten years in Rome and northern Italy, although returning to Candia in his last years.
Sefer Behinat Hadat of Elijah Del-Medigo, critical edition with introduction, notes and commentary by Jacob Joshua Ross, Tel-Aviv: Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, 1984
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