Judah ben Moses Romano

Judah ben Moses Romano[1] (c. 1293 – after 1330[2]) was an Italian Jewish philosopher and translator of the fourteenth century.

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.

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