Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century

LC control no.	nr 91003911
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PA8330.G54
Personal name heading	Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Giovanni, da Capua, 13th cent. 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 Jean, de Capoue, active 13th century Joannes, de Capua, active 13th century Iohannes, de Campana, active 13th century Iohannes, de Campania, active 13th century Iohannes, 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
Beginning date	12 1294~
Ending date	1303~
Located	Rome (Italy)
Birth date	1250~
Death date	1310~
Place of birth	Capua (Italy)
Field of activity	Translating and interpreting Medicine Fables
Profession or occupation	Translators Christian converts from Judaism
Special note	Not the same as: Giovanni, da Capua (Papal notary), active approximately 1230-1267, no2018164253
Found in	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) Encic. ital.: index (Giovanni da Capua; 13th cent.) NUC pre-56, vol. 201, p. 12 (Giovanni da Capua, 13th cent.) His Fábulas latinas medievales, c1992: p. 5 (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) Zonta, Mauro. "Giovanni da Capua," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, v. 55, 2001, via Treccani website, November 30, 2018 (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) <http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-da-capua_(Dizionario-Biografico)/> Jewish Virtual Library website, November 30, 2018 ("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") <https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/john-of-capua> Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA), November 30, 2018 (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) <https://www.arlima.net/eh/giovanni_da_capua.html#> 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) 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) 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) 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)
Associated language	lat