ELIJAH DELMEDIGO (1460-1497), philosopher, taught in sev eral Italian centres of learning. He translated some of Averroes' commentaries into Latin at the instigation of Pico di Mirandola. In the sphere of religion, Delmedigo represents the tendency to depart from the scholastic attitude in which religion and philoso phy were identified. His principal work, Behinath ha-Dath (In vestigation of Religion), was devoted to this end.