[1] According to Moritz Steinschneider and Gross, Kalonymus was the poet referred to by Immanuel (ib.
p. 28) as having pleaded the cause of the Roman Jews before the pope at Avignon in 1321, but this assertion needs confirmation since the exact dates of Kalonymus's stay in Rome can not be ascertained.
Heinrich Graetz and Adolf Neubauer believe Kalonymus went to Rome after a sojourn in Catalonia, which was in 1322, and believe the fact that Kalonymus does not mention Rome in Eben Boḥan confirms this supposition.
Kalonymus acquired a high reputation both as an original writer and as a translator.
[2] This poem has been increasingly embraced by some in the LGBTQIA+ Jewish community as an expression of gender dysphoria and transgender identity, suggesting that the poet may have been a trans woman.