Mauro Zonta
Biographic Data
| ID | 968788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro Zonta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro |
| FAMILY NAME | Zonta |
| SIGNATURE | ZONTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Twenty-Nine Hebrew Glosses on Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Jewish engagement with Aristotle's Metaphysics in Hebrew began in the thirteenth century when the text was presented in Hebrew encyclopedias; it continued with a number of translations in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The study of Hebrew philosophical texts often resulted in supercommentaries on them. In this study I present a hitherto unnoticed work, preserved in a unique Oxford manuscript, that bears witness to the study of the…
Notes on “Some Notes on ‘Avicenna Among Medieval Jews’ ” by Professor Steven Harvey
Professor Steven Harvey has honored us with a 28-page critique of our 2012 paper, “Avicenna among medieval Jews.” In our opinion, his text is wanting in both form and substance
Avicenna Among Medieval Jews the Reception of Avicenna's Philosophical, Scientific and Medical Writings in Jewish Cultures, East and West
The reception of Avicenna by medieval Jewish readers presents an underappreciated enigma. Despite the philosophical and scientific stature of Avicenna, his philosophical writings were relatively little studied in Jewish milieus, be it in Arabic or in Hebrew. In particular, Avicenna's philosophical writings are not among the “Hebräische Übersetzungen des Mittelalters” – only very few of them were translated into Hebrew. As an author associated wit…
Nicomachus of Gerasa in Spain, Circa 1100
In the 1120s, the Jewish philosopher and scientist Abraham Bar Ḥiyya (d. ca. 1136) wrote a Hebrew encyclopedia, Yesodei ha-tevunah u-migdal ha-ʾemunah a detailed chapter on mathematics is extant from this work. One source of its account of the nature of number has long been known to be Nicomachus of Gerasa's Introduction to Arithmetic . Three Arabic versions of Nicomachus are known to have existed: Ḥabib Ibn Bahrīz's translation from the Syriac, …
A Newly Discovered Arabic-Hebrew Medieval Philosophical Dictionary, Including Key-Terms of Maimonides' Guide
The manuscript of Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, A. II. 12, includes (on folios 213r–217v) a short Hebrew dictionary of 39 philosophical terms. 23 of these terms can be found in the introduction to part two of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, which has been copied in full lenght in the manuscript as well (according to Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation). The dictionary was probably written in the second half of the 13th century…
Hebrew Scholasticism in the Fifteenth Century
In their pursuit of a renewal of Jewish philosophy, a number of scholars active in Spain and Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century (Abraham Bibago, Baruch Ibn Ya‘ish, Abraham Shalom, Eli Habillo, Judah Messer Leon) turned to the doctrines and methods of contemporary Latin Scholasticism. These philosophers, who read Latin very well, were impressed by the theories formulated by their Latin colleagues (Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, W…
A Hebrew Translation of Hippocrates' De superfoetatione
The De superfoetatione is a gynecological treatise, usually ascribed to Hippocrates, that deals with the treatment of pregnant women. The medieval tradition of the text has been limited to an anonymous, non-literal Arabic translation, probably written before 900 and published by John Mattock in 1968. This is extant in a unique manuscript whose text appears to contain several lacunae and errors.
New Data On Judah Messer Leon's Commentaries on the Physics
The Role of a vicenna and of Islamic ‘A Vicennism’ in the 14th-Century Jewish Debate around Philosophy and Religion
The role played by Avicenna's philosophy and, in particular, by the Cor us Avicennianum in late-medieval Jewish philosophy has been never examined as a whole2 and, in any case, a rather limited number of studies on particular aspects of it exists. European Jewish philosophy in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries has been traditionally regarded as over whelmingly influenced not by Avicenna, but by Averroes. In facts, the list of Hebrew translations …
La filosofia antica nel Medioevo ebraico
Arab Roots of Gemology
Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology in Medieval Hebrew Encyclopaedias
There are three principal philosophical-scientific encyclopaedias written in Hebrew during the Middle Ages: Yehudah ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Ḥokmah (1245–1247), Shem Tov ibn Falaquera's De'ot ha-Filosofim (ca. 1270) and Gershon ben Shlomoh's Sha'ar ha-Shamayin (end of the 13th century). All three include detailed treatments of zoology, and the last two of botany and mineralogy as well. The principal feature of their treatments is their “theoretical”…
The Reception of Al-Fārābī's and Ibn Sīnā's Classifications of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences in the Hebrew Medieval Philosophical Literature1
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The Reception of Al-Fārābī's and Ibn Sīnā's Classifications of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences in the Hebrew Medieval Philosophical Literature1
Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology in Medieval Hebrew Encyclopaedias
There are three principal philosophical-scientific encyclopaedias written in Hebrew during the Middle Ages: Yehudah ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Ḥokmah (1245–1247), Shem Tov ibn Falaquera's De'ot ha-Filosofim (ca. 1270) and Gershon ben Shlomoh's Sha'ar ha-Shamayin (end of the 13th century). All three include detailed treatments of zoology, and the last two of botany and mineralogy as well. The principal feature of their treatments is their “theoretical”…
La filosofia antica nel Medioevo ebraico
Arab Roots of Gemology
The Role of a vicenna and of Islamic ‘A Vicennism’ in the 14th-Century Jewish Debate around Philosophy and Religion
The role played by Avicenna's philosophy and, in particular, by the Cor us Avicennianum in late-medieval Jewish philosophy has been never examined as a whole2 and, in any case, a rather limited number of studies on particular aspects of it exists. European Jewish philosophy in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries has been traditionally regarded as over whelmingly influenced not by Avicenna, but by Averroes. In facts, the list of Hebrew translations …
New Data On Judah Messer Leon's Commentaries on the Physics
A Hebrew Translation of Hippocrates' De superfoetatione
The De superfoetatione is a gynecological treatise, usually ascribed to Hippocrates, that deals with the treatment of pregnant women. The medieval tradition of the text has been limited to an anonymous, non-literal Arabic translation, probably written before 900 and published by John Mattock in 1968. This is extant in a unique manuscript whose text appears to contain several lacunae and errors.
Hebrew Scholasticism in the Fifteenth Century
In their pursuit of a renewal of Jewish philosophy, a number of scholars active in Spain and Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century (Abraham Bibago, Baruch Ibn Ya‘ish, Abraham Shalom, Eli Habillo, Judah Messer Leon) turned to the doctrines and methods of contemporary Latin Scholasticism. These philosophers, who read Latin very well, were impressed by the theories formulated by their Latin colleagues (Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, W…
A Newly Discovered Arabic-Hebrew Medieval Philosophical Dictionary, Including Key-Terms of Maimonides' Guide
The manuscript of Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, A. II. 12, includes (on folios 213r–217v) a short Hebrew dictionary of 39 philosophical terms. 23 of these terms can be found in the introduction to part two of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, which has been copied in full lenght in the manuscript as well (according to Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation). The dictionary was probably written in the second half of the 13th century…
Nicomachus of Gerasa in Spain, Circa 1100
In the 1120s, the Jewish philosopher and scientist Abraham Bar Ḥiyya (d. ca. 1136) wrote a Hebrew encyclopedia, Yesodei ha-tevunah u-migdal ha-ʾemunah a detailed chapter on mathematics is extant from this work. One source of its account of the nature of number has long been known to be Nicomachus of Gerasa's Introduction to Arithmetic . Three Arabic versions of Nicomachus are known to have existed: Ḥabib Ibn Bahrīz's translation from the Syriac, …
Avicenna Among Medieval Jews the Reception of Avicenna's Philosophical, Scientific and Medical Writings in Jewish Cultures, East and West
The reception of Avicenna by medieval Jewish readers presents an underappreciated enigma. Despite the philosophical and scientific stature of Avicenna, his philosophical writings were relatively little studied in Jewish milieus, be it in Arabic or in Hebrew. In particular, Avicenna's philosophical writings are not among the “Hebräische Übersetzungen des Mittelalters” – only very few of them were translated into Hebrew. As an author associated wit…
Notes on “Some Notes on ‘Avicenna Among Medieval Jews’ ” by Professor Steven Harvey
Professor Steven Harvey has honored us with a 28-page critique of our 2012 paper, “Avicenna among medieval Jews.” In our opinion, his text is wanting in both form and substance
Twenty-Nine Hebrew Glosses on Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Jewish engagement with Aristotle's Metaphysics in Hebrew began in the thirteenth century when the text was presented in Hebrew encyclopedias; it continued with a number of translations in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The study of Hebrew philosophical texts often resulted in supercommentaries on them. In this study I present a hitherto unnoticed work, preserved in a unique Oxford manuscript, that bears witness to the study of the…
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