Yohanan Alemanno[1] (born in Constantinople or in Mantua, c. 1435 – died after 1504) was an Italian Jewish rabbi, noted Kabbalist, humanist philosopher, and exegete, and teacher of the Hebrew language to Italian humanists including Pico della Mirandola.
[4][5][6] He was a pupil of Judah Messer Leon,[7] but departed from the Aristotelian sympathies of his teacher in the direction of neoplatonic thought.
[8] His works include Hay ha-Olamim,[9] Sefer sha`ar ha-heshek and a Cheshek Shlomo.
The introduction to this work is a discourse on the artistic and intellectual attainments of the human race, all of which are combined in King Solomon, whom the author places above Plato and his fellows (compare "Sha'ar ha-ḤesheḲ," pp. 3–7).
Excerpts from the introduction were published, with additions by Jacob Baruch ben Moses Ḥayyim, at Livorno in 1790.