Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of by Giuseppe Veltri, Gianfranco Miletto PDF

By Giuseppe Veltri, Gianfranco Miletto

ISBN-10: 9004222251

ISBN-13: 9789004222250

ISBN-10: 9004222464

ISBN-13: 9789004222465

Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533-1590) was once some of the most special rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This quantity is a checklist of the lawsuits of a global convention, geared up by means of the Institute of Jewish reports at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua's nation data. It includes contributions on Moscato and the highbrow global in Mantua through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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83 Note the fine increase in circular argumentation: ancient optical vision of the firmament is defective, since the new discovery of the telescope shows that optical vision per se is defective. Some centuries later, a descendant of the Luzzattos, Shmu’el David Luzzatto, commonly called Shadal, wrote some notes on the family’s genealogical tree and with reference to the Socrate of Simone. There he tries to justify the skeptical tendency of his ancestor, referring to the century of Descartes, to the crisis of Aristotelianism and therefore of the Scholastics, and the genesis of ancient Greek philosophy.

76 Nuncius Sidereus, 14 ff. “Quidam enim proprium esse ac naturalem ipsiusmet Lunê splendorem dixerunt; alii, a Venere illi esse impertitum; alii, a stellis omnibus; alii, a Sole, qui radiis suis profundam Lunê soliditatem permeet. 78 • Saturn was described as one planet, a union of three bodies which, similar to the earth, revolve around it over a period of thirty years. • The telescope informed us that the sun is full of hills, of volcanoes that emit fire and exhalations. Not only does Luzzatto mention the positive discoveries of the telescope, he also regards it as an example of a defective instrument.

5 Half a century later, Saul Levi Morteira gave a title to each of his many hundreds of sermons but his teacher, Leon Modena, Moscato’s younger contemporary, did not moscato as eulogizer 39 Spanish or Ottoman sermons is to identify the sermon simply by the parashah, or by the circumstances of delivery. It is unclear whether the title would have been announced by the preacher (or someone else) at the very beginning. Its function in the printed text is twofold: to give the reader an idea of the content or the thematic texture through a concise phrase, and to enable the preacher to refer the reader to a different sermon in the collection.

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