Elijah del Medigo's Commentary on Averroes' de Substantia Orbis: A Critical Edition of the Latin and Hebrew Versions

Bys: Engel, Michael, Licata, et al.

This book provides the first critical edition of an unpublished work by Elijah Del Medigo (c. 1455-c. 1493), which has survived in both Latin and Hebrew. Del Medigo, a Cretan-born Jewish philosopher who spent most of his professional life in northern Italy, translated several of Averroes's works from Hebrew into Latin and wrote quaestiones and commentaries concerning difficult aspects of his philosophy. Thanks to growing research activity in recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110569558
• ISBN13: 9783110569551
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 300 Pages