Paul III (1534), who appointed him his physician. This high position did not prevent Mantino from concerning himself with the affairs of the Jewish community of Rome, in whose records he appears as a member of the rabbinate, with the title "gaon." In 1544, for some unknown reason, Mantino returned to Venice, where again he was exempted from wearing the Jews' hat. Five years later he accompanied, as physician, the Venetian ambassador to Damascus, where he died soon after his arrival. Writings Mantino translated the following commentaries of Averroes: "Paraphrasis Averrois de Partibus et Generatione Animalium," with the commentary of Levi ben Gershon (dedicated to Pope Leo X.; Rome, 1521); commentary (the compendium) on Aristotle's "Metaphysics"; the "middle commentaries" on Aristotle's "Isagoge"—books i.-iv. of "Topics" and "Poetics" (Venice, 1550); commentary on Plato's "Republic" (dedicated to Pope Paul III.); proem to the large commentary on Aristotle's "Physics"; the large commentary on the third book of Aristotle on the soul; proem to book xii. of Aristotle's "Meta-physics"; the "middle commentary" on Aristotle's "Physics." He translated also Averroes' medical work "Colliget" ("Kullayot"), the first book of Avicenna's "Canon," and Maimonides' "Shemonah Peraḳim." References Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i. 606; Wüstenfeld, Die Uebersetzungen Arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert, pp. 123 et seq.; Steinschneider, in Zunz Jubelschrift, pp. 13, 20; idem, Cat. Bodl. col. 1235; idem, Hebr. Uebers. pp. 145, 438, 673, 685, 976; Kaufmann, in R. E. J. xxvii. 30 et seq.; Il Vessillo Israelitico, 1885, p. 317; Filippo Maria Renazzi, Storia dell' Università degli Studi di Roma, ii. 110; and Paul Rieger, Geschichte der Juden in Rom, ii. 94 et seq. Link to Jewish Encyclopedia article Jacob Mantino | Galeria de Metges Catalans 1549 deaths 16th-century Sephardi Jews 16th-century Jewish physicians 16th-century Italian physicians 16th-century Italian Jews Italian people of Spanish descent Italian Sephardi Jews Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 Year of birth unknown Medieval Jewish physicians 16th-century Italian writers 16th-century male writers 16th-century translators