Innovazioni nei modelli speculativi ebraici dell’Italia del Rinascimento. Il caso di Yochanan Alemanno

In Medieval Italian Jewish education Judeo-Arabic Aristotelianism merged with the most varied Jewish mystical trends. Even the many waves of refugees fleeing to Italy from other areas of the diaspora at the end of the Middle Ages could not affect deeply the peculiar fusion of rational and anti-rational speculation that characterized Italian Judaism. A more substantial change was triggered by the 15th-century humanist reshaping of the intellectual modes of cooperation between intellectuals of different faiths. The analysis of Yochanan Alemanno’s scholarly work demonstrates the extent to which a Jewish author, whose family had recently migrated into Italy from France, was deeply inspired by contemporary Italian non-Jewish trends of thought.