Shemariah of Negropont
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Shemariah ben Elijah Ikriti of Negropont was a Greek-Jewish philosopher and Biblical exegete, contemporary of Dante and Immanuel the Roman. Life He was born probably at Rome, the descendant of a long line of Roman Jews. His father, in his youth, went as rabbi to Crete, whence his surname, "Ha-Yewani" , or "Ha-Iḳriṭti" . Shemariah had a critical mind, and knew Italian, Latin, and Greek. Up to 1305 he studied the Bible exclusively; then he took up Talmudic aggadah and philosophy. The earliest Tractatus version in Hebrew was translated by Shemariah and presented as his own work, titled Sefer ha-Hihhayon.
