Judah ben Moses Romano (c. 1293 – after 1330) was an Italian Jewish philosopher and translator of the fourteenth century. He was a cousin of Immanuel of Rome.
He was a significant early translator of works of scholastic philosophy from Latin into Hebrew. He was the first Hebrew translator of Thomas Aquinas; he also translated Albertus Magnus, Giles of Rome, Alexander of Alessandri, Domenicus Gundissalinus and Angelo of Camerino.
He translated sections of the Divine Comedy of Dante, and gave public readings of it. He was employed by Robert of Naples, along with Immanuel and Kalonymos.
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- Judah ben Moses of Rome, Yehuda Romano, Leone Romano.
- "Jewish philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online". Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2007-01-29., the Jewish Encyclopedia gives 1286 as date of birth .
- "Text manuscripts/New items". Archived from the original on 2006-06-13. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
- Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, History of Jewish Philosophy (1997), pp. 299, 352.
- "Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Italian". Archived from the original on 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
- Umberto Eco, Serendipities (English translation 1999), p. 64.
- Chapters On Jewish Literature - Chapter XVIII. Italian Jewish Poetry (by Israel Abrahams)
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