Elia Levita
Elia Levita (13 February 146928 January 1549) (), also known as
Elijah Levita,
Elias Levita,
Élie Lévita,
Elia Levita Ashkenazi,
Eliahu Levita,
Eliyahu haBahur ("Elijah the Bachelor"),
Elye Bokher, was a
Renaissance Hebrew grammarian,
scholar, and poet. He was the author of the ''
Bovo-Bukh'' (written in 1507–1508), the most popular
chivalric romance written in Yiddish. Living for a decade in the house of Cardinal
Giles of Viterbo, he was one of the foremost teachers of Christian clergy, nobility, and intellectuals in Hebrew and in
Jewish mysticism during the Renaissance.
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