Elijah Delmedigo

Elijah Delmedigo (born 1460?, Candia, Crete [Greece]—died 1497, Candia) was a Jewish philosopher known for his Beḥinat ha-dat (“Investigation of Religion”), in which he criticized the Kabbala (esoteric Jewish mysticism). He also translated some of the commentaries of Averroës and wrote a Latin commentary on Aristotle’s Physics. He was a teacher of the Italian Platonist philosopher Pico della Mirandola and the great-grandfather of the scientist and philosopher Joseph Solomon Delmedigo.