Amos Luzzatto (3 June 1928 – 9 September 2020) was an Italian-Jewish writer and essayist, born in a family of ancient tradition.
His father's great-great-grandfather, Samuel David Luzzatto (Shadal),[2] was teaching at the Rabbinical College in Padua and was an Italian representative of the "Wissenschaft des Judentums".
He was university lecturer and Chief Physician, he devoted his studies especially to the applications of mathematical systems to the medical-clinical researches.
He has contributed personal essays in the books Left Wing and Jewish question (Editori Riuniti, 1989), Modern Jews (Bollati-Boringheri, 1989), Besides the Ghetto (Morcelliana, 1992) and Annali Einaudi- Storia degli Ebrei d'Italia, vol.
At the same university, he organized the "Socrates European Master in Archaeology and the Dynamics of Writing", regarding the Jewish aspect of this subject.