MANTINO, JACOB BEN SAMUEL
- MANTINO, JACOB BEN SAMUEL
- MANTINO, JACOB BEN SAMUEL (d. 1549), physician and
translator. Mantino was apparently of Spanish origin but he spent most
of his life in Italy. After graduating in medicine at Padua in 1521, he
developed a flourishing practice in Bologna, Verona, and Venice,
especially among the upper classes. At the same time he became known for
his translations from Hebrew into Latin of philosophical works, mainly
those of Averroës and Avicenna. In the stormy debate on the annulment of
the marriage between Henry VIII of England and Catherine
of Aragon he opposed Henry's supporters, thus earning the gratitude of
Pope Clement VII, and at his request Mantino was
appointed lecturer in medicine in Bologna in
1529. In 1533 the pope invited him to Rome where, unlike his protector,
Mantino took a strong stand against the messianic claims of
solomon molcho . In 1534 Pope Paul III
appointed him his personal physician and in 1539–41 professor of
practical medicine at the Sapienza in Rome. In 1544 he returned to
Venice. Five years later he left for Damascus as personal
physician of the Venetian ambassador. He died soon after his
arrival there.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Kaufmann, in: REJ, 27 (1893), 30–60, 207–38; Milano,
Italia, 242, 625, 631; idem, Ghetto di Roma (1964), 60, 68f.;
C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959), index; Ravà, in:
Vessillo Israelitico, 51 (1903), 310–3; Muenster, in:
RMI, 20 (1954), 310–21.
(Attilio Milano)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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