AQUINO, FILIPPO d' (GIUDA MORDECHAI). — Hebraist, b. at Avignon or Carpentras (second half of the sixteenth century), d. in Paris in 1650. He converted from Judaism and was baptized at Aquino, from which he took his new name, abandoning that of Jehudà Mordechai.
Having gone to Paris in 1610, he was professor of Hebrew language and literature at the Collège de France until almost the time of his death. He supported and assisted Michele Le Jay (Jajus) in the printing and correction of the Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Paris Polyglot. Among other works, he published (1629) a large Hebrew, Aramaic, and Talmudic-rabbinic dictionary, and wrote on rabbinic interpretations of the Pentateuch (1620) and on the Tabernacle (1623, enlarged ed. 1624). He composed a Hebrew version of the New Testament and an Italian translation of the Mishnaic treatise Abot.
LUIGI ENRICO d'AQUINO, his son, is known as a translator of rabbinic writings. Alfredo Ravenna