Yohanan Alemanno
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Yohanan Alemanno[1] (c.1435–after 1504) was an Italian Jewish humanist philosopher and exegete, and teacher of the Hebrew language to Italian humanists including Pico della Mirandola. He taught that the Kabbalah was divine magic.[2][3][4]
He was a pupil of Judah Messer Leon,[5] but departed from the Aristotelian sympathies of his teacher in the direction of neoplatonic thought.[6]
His works include Hay ha-Olamim[7], Sefer sha`ar ha-heshek and a Cheshek Shlomo[8].[9] He cites Judan ben Nissim Ibn Malkah[10]
[edit] Reference
- Ḥay ha-ʻolamim = L'immortale by Yoḥanan Aliman (1995) Fabrizio Lelli
[edit] Notes
- ^ Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, Yochanan Alemanno, Johanan Alemanno, Johann Alemanno, Johanan Allemanno, Yohanan Isaac Allemanno, Aliman, Alemannos
- ^ Colette Sirat, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages (1985), p.410.
- ^ He brought together in his thinking Averroist, Kabbalistic, Neoplatonic and Renaissance humanist themes. [1] Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article Jewish Philosophy.
- ^ [2]: "The wise of Israel speak of a world which is not that of the philosophers: the world of the sefiroth is superior to that of the corruptible entities, as well as to the world of circular movements and that of the angels."
- ^ Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman (eds.), History of Jewish Philosophy(1997), p.515.
- ^ Frank & Leaman p.428: Thinkers like Jacob Anatoli, Isaac Pollegar, and Yochanan Alemanno continued the Platonic-Farabian-Maimonidean emphasis on the prophet's political mission [...].
- ^ [3]: Like Judah's Dialoghi, Alemanno's dialogue Hay ha-'olamim, composed in late-fifteenth-century Florence, was in conversation with the neoplatonic thought of Ficino and Pico. Like Judah, Alemanno was also concerned with the relationship between imagination and intellect, and the role of poetics and rhetoric as disciplines necessary for the attainment of human felicity.
- ^ The Desire of Solomon; also the title of a later work.
- ^ Further titles from [4] are ’Einei hah’éda, Sefer likutim. That source states that he originally came from Constantinople. (In French, under Aliman.)
- ^ Sirat p. 262.
