Mordechai Finzi

מרדכי פינצי

15th century

On the figure of Finzi, who died in Mantua around 1476 — a banker, scholar of mathematics and astronomy, and copyist of numerous manuscripts — who translated into Hebrew several treatises by Abu Kamil ibn Shudeya, basing himself on medieval translations in Latin, Italian, or Castilian, see S. Simonsohn, The Jews of Mantua, p. 709; Y. Tzvi Langermann, “The Scientific Writings of Mordekhai Finzi,” Italia 7 (1988), pp. 7–44, 32–36; G. Tamani, La biblioteca scientifica di Mordekay Finzi (Mantova, sec. XV) in MICROLOGUS, vol. IX, pp. 237-247.