Index of Names and Subjects
Aboab, Samuel
132–133
Abraham
135, 142–143, 145, 147, 151
Abravanel, Isaac
113, 180, 182, 213
Abravanel, Judah (Leone Ebreo)
111
Agrippa, Cornelius
55–56
Agrippa, Menenio Lanatus
87–88, 90
Albo, Joseph
113, 181–182
Alcibiades
222
Alemanno, Yohanan
111, 114–115, 118
Alexander the Great
253–254, 262
Alighieri, Dante
110
amoraim
136, 144
See also tannaim
Anaxagoras
22, 71, 97, 222
Apelles
102–103
Apollo
109–110
Aquinas, Thomas
221
Aristophanes
43–44
Aristotle
32n47, 61, 65, 97, 100, 110, 117, 151, 158, 163, 221
Nicomachean Ethics
211, 220
Politics
153
Rhetoric
99–100
Augustine
26, 178
Augustus
155, 214
Averroes
116, 160
Bacon, Francis
45, 50, 84, 90–92, 94–96, 191, 195–197, 204–206, 223
Bacon, Roger
84
Balaam
200
Baruch, book of
257, 260–261
Boccalini, Traiano
108–110
Botero, Giovanni
172, 213–216, 220, 225, 229–232, 235–236
Botticelli, Sergio
102–103
Boyle, Robert
59
Chalcol
166
See also Ethan the Ezrahite; Heman; Darda
Calleoni, Giovanni
129
Camozza, Giovanni Battista
100
Caramuel, Juan
138
Carneades
32
Casaubon, Isaac
100
Cattelan, Sabbadin
215
See also Merceria, robbery of; Scaramella, Grassin
Cebà, Ansaldo
100–101
chance
56, 222–223
See also fortune
Charron, Pierre
171, 177, 179
Chronicles, books of
157–158, 160, 166
Chrysippus
66–67, 85, 97
See also stoicism
Cicero
16–17, 32, 171, 176, 178, 180
Cleinias
222
Coen, Rafael
240
Copernicus, Nicolaus
50
Copio Sullam, Sara
36, 100, 109–111
Cordovero, Moses
39
Costa, Uriel da
126
Cratylus
34, 63, 71, 175, 220, 224
Crescas, Ḥasdai
156, 181
Critias
65–66
Crito
51–53, 71
Cyrus the Great
254, 258n30–31, 161n38
da Vinci, Leonardo
93
David, King
151
Darda
166
See also Chalcol; Ethan the Ezrahite; Heman
Darius, king of Persia
254, 258n30–31, 261n38
de’ Rossi, Azariah
249, 257–264, 267, 270
del Bene, Judah
108, 110n14, 111n16
Delmedigo, Joseph
137n36, 138
Demetrius, King
263–264
Democritus
89, 222–223
Descartes, René
30–31, 32n47, 53, 59
Diotima
53–57, 65
Ecclesiastes, book of
1–2, 15, 98, 125, 127, 129–133, 140, 151–153, 156–157, 161, 164, 166
Eliezer ben Hyrchanus
144
See also tannaim, amoraim
Empiricism
82–84, 205
medical school
83
Empiricus, Sextus
17, 30, 33, 44–48, 51–53, 57–58, 62, 64, 66–72, 82–83, 85–88, 93, 96, 171, 180, 219
first trope
46–50
second and third tropes
51–53
fourth and fifth tropes
53–57
sixth and seventh tropes
58–51
eighth trope
62–64
See also relativity and relation
ninth and tenth tropes
64–67, 86
See also relativity and relation
Epicurus
59
Erostratus
66
Ethan the Ezrahite
146, 166
See also Chalcol; Darda; Heman
Euclid
60
Eusebius
258
Exodus, book of
160, 180, 210
Ezra, book of
254, 257–259, 261
Farissol, Abraham
111
Ferro, Giovanni
36–37
Ficino, Marsilio
56, 113
fideism
23–24n16, 35, 40, 72
Florus
220
fortune
219–220, 223
See also chance
Freher, Marquard
100
Galilei, Galileo
50, 53, 60–61
Gassendi, Pierre
84
Genesis, book of
104, 205
Genazzano, Elijah Ḥayyim of
113, 115
Gersonides
154, 163
Gorgias
60, 68–71
Guicciardini, Francesco
84, 213
Habakuk
146
Ḥai de Serval, Salomon
36
Halevi, Judah
116–119
Heliodorus (chancellor of Seleucus)
263
Heman
166
See also Chalcol; Darda; Ethan the Ezrahite
Hippias
21, 27–29, 71, 173–175
Horace
102
Horman, William
93
Hume, David
24
ibn Shem-Ṭob, Joseph
116
ibn Ṭufayl, Abū Bakr
117
ignorance
16, 22, 24, 32, 69, 72, 99, 103, 118
immortality of the soul
111, 126, 129–132
Isaiah, prophet
146, 151
Italian academies
impresa (endeavour)
35–37
Incogniti
36, 38
Loredan, Gianfrancesco
36
Jagel, Abraham
111
Jeremiah, book of
131, 146, 249–250, 255–257, 260–261, 264, 267–271
Job, book of
126, 129–136, 140–145, 147
See also resurrection of the dead
Josephus
181, 253–254, 257–258, 264
Kabbalah
118–119
sefirot
86–88
Kant, Immanuel
18, 35
Kepler, Johannes
61
Kings, books of
151, 157–158, 160, 166
Kircher, Athanasius
49
La Mothe Le Vayer, François de
177
Lampronti, Isaac
209–210
Leon, Messer Judah
114
Libro Grande
183
Locke, John
53
Lucian
103
Lucretius
59, 223
Lusitano, Samuel ha-Kohen da Pisa
125–136, 140–141
Maccabees, books of
257, 263–264
Machiavelli, Niccolò
84, 151, 155–156, 161, 172, 198, 205, 212–213, 217, 222–223
necessity
92–94, 212, 214, 223
The Prince
152, 154, 156, 160–161, 213, 223
Maecenas
214
Maimonides
34, 118, 133, 138, 160, 163–164, 180–182
Manutius, Aldus
100
memory
19, 204, 221
See also time
Menasseh ben Israel
249, 259–273
Merceria, robbery of
190, 215
See also Scaramella, Grassin; Cattelan, Sabbadin
Messiah
128–129, 133
Micanzio, Fulgenzio
184–185
Midas, King
103
mirrors
18, 46, 48–50
Modena, Leon
36, 111, 119, 127n4, 132n23, 133, 137, 166–167, 184n39, 210
Montaigne, Michel de
44, 57, 67, 72, 84, 171, 177–178, 191, 192n5, 202–203, 206, 219, 223
More, Thomas
95
Morel, Frédéric
100
Moses
145, 151, 160–161, 172, 180, 193–194
Mun, Thomas
229, 238–242
Narbonne, Moses of (Moses Narboni)
117–118
Nathan the Babylonian
144–145
See also tannaim; amoraim
Nature
25, 27–33, 47, 49, 73–74, 162, 165, 173–175, 177–179, 198–199, 222, 224, 253
natural philosophy
28, 74
natural morality
33, 74–75, 85, 177, 192–193
Nebuchadnezzar
146, 260–261
Newton, Isaac
59
Nicanor (general)
263–264, 264n46
Nizza, Isaiah ben Eliezer Ḥayyim
36, 39n64
nuda veritas
101–102
Numenius of Apamea
113, 115
Ockham, William
84
Onias (priest)
263
Paluzzi, Numidio
110
Parnassic genre
109–110
See also Boccalini, Traiano
Pericles
31, 114, 178, 220–221
Philo of Alexandria
181, 191, 252–253, 259–261
philosopher king
160–161, 172n5, 173
philosophical theism
24–25, 74–75
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
56, 113
Plato
16, 21, 33, 43–44, 59, 66, 71, 86–88, 95, 117, 151, 164, 166
Apology
44, 81, 151, 164
Charmides
44
Phaedo
98, 156
Philebus
98
Republic
160
Symposium
54
Sophist
44
Timaeus
163
Poliziano
100
Pomis, David ben Isaac de
180, 182
prisca theologia
115
Protagoras
18, 70–71, 221
Proteus
174
Provençal, Moses ben Abraham
210
Proverbs, book of
153–155, 157–159, 162–164, 166
providence
129, 131–132, 135–136, 138, 144–145, 153
prudence
22, 157, 159, 162, 166, 172–174, 210–216, 220–225
Psalms, book of
193
Ptolemy
61
Ptolemy, king of Egypt
112
Pythagoras
65, 110, 113, 115, 118
Rashi
147n85, 160, 162n30, 210
reason of state
171–175, 179, 213–214, 251n6
religion
biblical
34–35
civil and natural
24, 198
instrumentum regni
214–215
true
25, 73–74, 81, 157, 159–160
Reuben
145
resurrection of the dead
126, 129–132, 134–136, 141–145
See also Job, book of
Rossi, Salomone
36
Samson
219
Sarpi, Paolo
184
Scaramella, Grassin
215
See also Cattelan, Sabbadin; Merceria, robbery of
Scepticism
Academic
32, 176–178, 185
Agrippean modes
17, 87–88
apraxia
32
disagreement among theories (diaphōnia)
17, 20, 38, 44
equipollence of opposite claims (isostheneia)
16–17, 21, 27, 44, 82
experience (empeiria)
83, 205
See also Empiricism
moderation of emotions (metriopatheia)
30
ordinary living by appearances
30
probable (pithanon)
25–26, 29–35, 63–64, 74, 174–180, 182, 186, 205–206, 220, 224–225
Pyrrhonian
19, 32n47, 138
Pyrrhonian crisis
50, 72
regress ad infinitum
18–19, 93, 96
See also necessity
relativity and relation
17, 18, 53, 62–67, 84–88, 91, 202
resembling the truth (verisimile)
176–177, 185–186
suspension of judgement (epochē)
16–17, 21–23, 30, 33, 44–45, 62, 69–71, 87, 177, 199, 205
tranquillity (ataraxia)
16–17, 22–23, 26, 30, 44
Seneca
97, 99
Senensi, Sixtus
269
Serra, Antonio
229–238, 241
simulacra (theory of)
18, 59, 61
Socrates
16, 20–22, 24–40, 43–57, 63–69, 71, 74–75, 95, 97–99, 113–119, 151, 156–157, 163–166, 173, 175, 177, 179–180, 220–223
daemon
30, 35, 40
Solomon, King
98, 130, 145, 151–167, 172
St John, Oliver
267
Stoicism
28, 31–32, 48–49, 59–60, 85–87, 90, 97, 178, 203
virtutes esse animalia
97
Strabo
61
Strauss, Leo
160
superstition
16, 25–28, 34, 73–75, 219
Tacitus
85, 98, 151, 155, 172, 190, 213, 217–219, 250–254
Talmud
126, 140, 210
Avodah Zarah, tractate
265
Bava Batra, tractate
134–136
Bava Qamma, tractate
271
Pirkei Avot, tractate
257, 271
Yoma, tractate
257
tannaim
136, 144
See also amoraim
Telesio, Bernardino
84
Tertullian
218–219
tevunah
210
See also prudence
theatrum mundi
101, 138–139
Theophrastus
Characters
100–101
time
204
See also memory
Timon
21, 26–29, 71, 163–165, 173–175
Universitates Hebraeorum
183
usury
88–89, 91, 94–96
Virgil
110, 160
Xenophon
43
Yehoshua ben Karcha
144
See also tannaim; amoraim
Yohanan ben Zakkai
135, 143–144
See also tannaim; amoraim
Zedekiah
146
Zohar
38–39