A Hebrew Dante: Moshe da Rieti's "Miqdash Me'at," its Cultural Background and its Reception

列提的摩西·本·伊扎克（Mosè di Gaio，1388年-罗马，1466年前）是世纪上半叶主要的犹太-意大利哲学家和诗人。他的主要作品《小圣殿》（Miqdash me'at）是一首约5000首希伯来语诗歌，采用terza rima（但丁《神曲》中使用的格律），具有宗教、科学和哲学内容。使用一个细分，对应于不同领域的耶路撒冷寺庙，列蒂阐述了第一世俗或“外部”科学的中世纪trivium和quadrivium。他特别提到了各种古希腊思想家，如亚里士多德，欧几里得，托勒密和斑岩，以及阿拉伯（al-Fārābi，al-Ghazāl，Avicenna，Averroes）和犹太（Gersonides）哲学家。他的主要参考点是迈蒙尼德，谁“调和”世俗科学与托拉。在所有学科中，诗歌占据了一个特殊的位置，因为它允许作者对智力沉思的热爱充分表达自己。作品的另一部分包括对天堂的描述，让人想起但丁的一般灵感，但也使用了犹太文学传统中的元素。列蒂的作品可能代表了犹太-意大利学派的晚期思想，由哲学家犹大·罗马诺（约1949年）发起。1293-1330年后），这将迈蒙尼德的理性主义思想和新柏拉图主义元素从自由的原因得出的中心。知识的损失的想法，以及他们可能通过半预言性的愿景，在学校表示，恢复，特别是在Rieti的工作强调。他的全部作品是中世纪晚期/文艺复兴早期犹太和意大利文化中最重要和最原始的诗歌/哲学作品之一;但只能通过19世纪的不完整版本访问，没有注释或评论。一个法国/德国研究小组，其主要研究人员具有互补的研究技能和经验（过去曾合作过），与一些年轻的研究人员一起计划对它进行彻底的研究，其中包括完整的英语散文翻译和具有广泛注释的评论版以及对文化背景和接受的深入研究。Alessandro Guetta（INALCO，巴黎）是犹太-意大利思想史（主要是哲学和文学）的专家，并已写了大量关于摩西达Rieti; Elisabeth Hollender（歌德大学，法兰克福）是希伯来诗歌和希伯来宗教诗歌评论的专家。三年的语言学，哲学和文学研究将使中世纪后期欧洲犹太文学的一个显着的和几乎不为人知的工作提供给专家和更广泛的观众。

Moshe ben Yitzhaq of Rieti (Mosè di Gaio, Rieti 1388-Rome, before 1466) was the main Jewish-Italian philosopher and poet of the first half of the 15th century. His main work, Miqdash me’at (Little Sanctuary) is a poem of about 5000 Hebrew verses in terza rima (the meter used in Dante’s Divine Comedy) with a religious, scientific and philosophical content. Using a subdivision that corresponds to the different areas of the Jerusalem Temple, Rieti expounds first the profane or “external” sciences of the medieval trivium and quadrivium. He specifically refers to various ancient Greek thinkers, such as Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy and Porphyry, as well as Arab (al-Fārābi, al-Ghazālī, Avicenna, Averroes) and Jewish (Gersonides) philosophers. His principal point of reference is Maimonides, who “reconciled” the profane sciences with the Torah. Among all disciplines, poetry occupies a special place, as it allows the author’s love of intellectual contemplation to express itself fully. Another section of the work includes a description of Paradise, reminiscent of Dante in the general inspiration but also in the use of elements drawn from Jewish literary tradition. Rieti’s work probably represents the late stage of a Jewish-Italian school of thought, initiated by the philosopher Judah Romano (ca. 1293-after 1330), that associates the centrality of Maimonides’ rationalistic thought and neo-platonic elements drawn from the Liber de causis. The idea of the loss of knowledge, and their possible recovery through semi-prophetic visions, expressed in that school, is particularly emphasized in Rieti’s work. His oeuvre is among the most important and original poetic/philosophical endeavors of the Late Middle Age/early Renaissance Jewish and Italian culture; but is accessible only through a 19th century incomplete edition, without notes or commentary. A French/German research group, whose principal investigators have complementary research skills and experiences (and worked together in the past), together with some young researchers, plan a thorough study of it, that will include a complete English prose-translation and a critical edition with extensive notes and an in-depth research of the cultural context and reception. Alessandro Guetta (INALCO, Paris) is a specialist of Jewish-Italian intellectual history (mainly Philosophy and literature) and has already written extensively on Moshe da Rieti; Elisabeth Hollender (Goethe University, Frankfurt) is a specialist of Hebrew poetry and commentaries of Hebrew religious poetry. Three years of philological, philosophical and literary research will make a remarkable and virtually unknown work of European-Jewish literature of the late Middle Age available to specialists and a broader audience.