Capitolo 82
the best writers of toward Israelite in Spain. Italians made fine for this loss
from their subject-matter. They is cheerful poets, full of the cheerfulness of
life. They is secular poets, not religious; the best of the
The Spanish-Jewish poetry was devotional, and the best of Italians this way
secular that has been condemned by pietists as too much frivolous and too much
"disfigured by sick-calculated lightness."
Immanuel was approximately born in Rome in the 1270. He rarely mentions his/her father,
but often the names mother his/her Justa as a woman of pious and noble
character. As a youth, he had a strong desire for scientific study, and
you/he/she was fed on her/it "Guide" of Maimonides, on the jobs of the Greek
and Arabs, and on the writings of the school-man Christians that him
reads in Israelite translations. Besides the philosophy, the mathematics, astronomy,
and medicine, Immanuel studied the Bible and the Talmud, and it became a
studious skilled. He was not born a poet, but he read deeply the
the poetic literature of Hebrews and Cristiano, and taken lessons in
rhyme-doing. He was rich, and its house was an appointment of the intelligence and
scientists. Its his/her own position in the Jewish community was extraordinary. It
you/he/she has already been said that him taken an active part in the management of
town business, but he did more than this. He preached in the
synagogue in the day of Reparation, and it delivered eulogistic prayers
on the rests of past worthies. Toward the end of his/her life him
suffered losses both in fortune and in friends but him finally founded a
new house in Fermo, where you/he/she was cordially given him the welcome one in 1328. The date of
its death is uncertain, but he approximately died in the 1330.
Its jobs were versatile rather than deep. He wrote grammatical
essays and commentaries that visualize the culture more than
originality. But its poetic writings are of great interest in the
history of the Jewish literature. He lived in the dawn-throw of water of the
Rebirth in Italy. The Italian language was evolving only it,