Abstract
To explore this dialectic between old and new, tradition and innovation, this essay focuses on two important fifteenth-century figures, Judah Musser Leon (ca. 1420ca. 1498) and his younger contemporary Judah Abravanel (ca. 1465-after 1521), also known as Leone Hebrew. Jewish Philosophy in Italy on the Eve of Modernity Let me now move from the theoretical to the particular and give a historical overview of the two thinkers who are the subjects of this study, Judah Mesmer Leon and Judah Abravanel. In the opening of the fourth section of Nofet Sufim. The goal of this essay is not to dwell on the relationship between Judah Messer Leon and his academy to the newly arrived Judah Abravanel - a relationship that, as far as understudied on account of the paucity of evidence, but a relationship that must have existed, if only informally. Keywords:Italy; jewish philosophy; Judah Abravanel; Judah Messer Leon
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