Il calabrese Agazio Guidacerio e l’insegnamento dell’ebraico nell’Europa del XVI secolo

Abstract

The Calabrian Agazio Guidacerio and the teaching of Hebrew in 16^th century Europe

In the early modern age, a phenomenon emerged in European culture ‒ later referred to as Christian Hebraistics ‒ that sought to apply the philological techniques born out of the study of Latin and Greek to the Hebrew text of the Bible and then to the other sources of its tradition. This new approach fundamentally changed thinking about Judaism and expanded the boundaries within which it had been understood until then. Among the protagonists of the first phase was the Calabrian scholar Agazio Guidacerio, professor of Hebrew first at the Sapienza in Rome and then at the Collège Royal in Paris, whose teaching and works contributed to shaping European Hebrew studies in the sixteenth century.