Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century
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Name (Latin)
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century
Other forms of name
Iohannes, de Campana, active 13th century
Iohannes, de Campania, active 13th century
Iohannes, de Capua, active 13th century
Jean, de Capoue, active 13th century
Joannes, de Capua, active 13th century
Johann, von Capua, active 13th century
Johannes, de Capua, active 13th century
Johannes, von Capua, active 13th century
John, of Capua, active 13th century
Juan, de Capua, active 13th century
Campana, Iohannes de, active 13th century
Campania, Iohannes de, active 13th century
Capoue, Jean de, active 13th century
Capua, Giovanni da, active 13th century
Capua, Iohannes de, active 13th century
Capua, Johann von, active 13th century
Capua, Johannes de, active 13th century
Capua, John of, active 13th century
Capua, Juan de, active 13th century
Giovanni, da Capua, 13th cent
Johannes, de Capua, 13th cent
Date of birth
1250
Date of death
1310
Field of activity
Fables
Medicine
Translating and interpreting
Occupation
Christian converts from Judaism
Translators
Associated Language
lat
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Giovanni da Capua; variant names: Johannes de Capua, Johannes de Campana, Jean de Capoue; born in Capua approximately 1250; died in Rome approximately 1310; Jewish author who converted to Christianity; author of Directorium humanae vitae, translated from the Hebrew ( (Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA), November 30, 2018) )
- Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, November 30, 2018(Jean de Capoue, forme courante français; Johannes de Capua, forme internationale latin; born and died 13th century; forme(s) rejetée(s): Joannes de Capua latin; Juan de Capua espagnol; Giovanni da Capua italien; John of Capua anglais; Johannes von Capua allemand; Johann von Capua allemand)
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, November 30, 2018(Johannes, de Capua; variant names: Capua, Giovanni da; Capua, Johannes de; Capua, Juan de; Giovanni, da Capua; Jean, de Capoue; Johann, von Capua; Johannes, aus Capua; Johannes, de Campana; Johannes, de Campania; Johannes, de Padua; Johannes, Patavinus; Johannes, von Campana; Johannes, von Campania; Johannes, von Capua; John, of Capua; Juan, de Capua; life dates: approximately 13th century; translator)
- Encic. ital.:index (Giovanni da Capua; 13th cent.)
- Exemplario contra los engaños y peligros del mundo. Texto y concordancias del Exemplario ... [MI] 1989:guide, cover p. 1 (Juan de Capua) p. 2 (judeo-converso italiano Juan de Capua)
- Giovanni, da Capua. Directorium humane vite, alias, Parabole antiquoru[m] sapientu[m], approximately 1489:(incipit: [V]erbum Iohannis de Capua, post tenebrarum olim palpationem ritus Iudaici, diuina sola inspiratione ad firmu[m] & verum statum orthodoxe fidei reuocati)
- His Fábulas latinas medievales, c1992:p. 5 (Juan de Capua)
- "John of Capua (Johannes de Capua; 13th century), Italian translator who lived in Rome during the pontificate of Bonifacius VIII (1294-1303). Probably born in Capua before 1250, John of Capua, an apostate, is known for his translation of Kalila and Dimna from Hebrew into Latin. John translated this famous collection of tales, working on the basis of a previous Hebrew version done from Arabic in the 12th century by a Jew named Joel. He worked on this Latin translation between 1263 and 1278 and dedicated it to Cardinal Matteo Orsini. The work was thereafter widely known under its Latin name, Directorium humanae vitae, alias parabolae antiquorum sapientium" ( (Jewish Virtual Library website, November 30, 2018) )
- NUC pre-56, vol. 201, p. 12(Giovanni da Capua, 13th cent.)
- VIAF, November 30, 2018:VIAF ID: 13106644 (Johannes, de Capua: National Library of the Netherlands, National Library of Sweden, NUKAT Center of Warsaw University Library, ISNI, RERO - Library Network of Western Switzerland; Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century: Library of Congress/NACO; Johannes de Capua, ca. 13. Jh.: German National Library; Jean de Capoue, 12..-12..: Sudoc [ABES], France; يوحنا الكابوني: Wikidata; Johannes de Capua, činný 13. století: National Library of the Czech Republic; Giovanni da Capua, sec. XIII: Vatican Library; Capoue, Jean de: National Library of Poland; Iohannes de Capua: National and University Library in Zagreb) VIAF ID: 9950735 (Giovanni da Capua: Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of the Italian libraries, ISNI; Jean de Capoue: National Library of France)
- Wikipedia, November 30, 2018(German Wikipedia: Johann von Capua, also Giovanni da Capua, born approximately 1250 in Capua, died approximately 1310 in Rome; 13th-century Jewish author who converted to Christianity; English Wikipedia: John of Capua (active 1262-1269), an Italian Jewish convert to Christianity, and a translator; French Wikipedia: Jean de Capoue, a 13th century Italian Jew who converted to Christianity; translated into Latin the Hebrew version of Rabbi Joël of the Kalîla wa Dimna under the title Directorium vitae humanae; Italian Wikipedia: Giovanni da Capua; born approximately 1250 in Capua, died approximately 1310 in Rome; Italian author and translator)
- GIOVANNI da Capua (Iohannes de Campana, de Campania, de Capua); a Jewish convert to Christianity, active around 1300 in Rome as a translator into Latin; neither his original Hebrew name is known nor his family; it may be presumed that he was born in Capua, perhaps earlier than 1250; no original works known and the only certain information about his life and activity is found in the prefaces and colophons of his translations, which almost exclusively refer to persons present at the papal court in Rome during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), so he was presumably active at that time and place and not, as stated by most modern bibliographers, between 1263 and 1268; popularized Arab-Jewish science among the Christians, working from existing Hebrew translations from Arabic; translations include many on medical matters, suggesting he may have been a doctor himself; a "Magister Johannes de Capua" active as a papal notary between 1257 and 1263 is not the same person as this Giovanni da Capua ( (Zonta, Mauro. "Giovanni da Capua," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, v. 55, 2001, via Treccani website, November 30, 2018) )