IMMANUEL B. SALOMON ROMI. This distinguished poet and commentator, also called min 719N, the prince of science in Rome, was born in the eternal city about A.D. 1265, of a highly respectable Roman family denominated (M`YratT) Ziphronim, and by diligent study and his natural endowments soon became master of the whole cycle of Biblical and Talmudic literature, as well as of the productions of ancient and modern Greece and Rome. His brilliant talents, his charming poetry, and his delightful company, made him a general favourite, and attracted the notice of the immortal Dante, so that the two spirits, kindred, and yet different in many respects, formed a mutual and intimate attachment. Im manuel wrote commentaries on tlae whole O. T., with the exception of the minor Prophets and Ezra, giving not only a grammatical and archteolo gical explanation of the text, but making also some of the most valuable remarks upon the nature and spirit of the poetical books. It is greatly to be
regretted that of all his exegetical works which are in different public libraries of Europe, the Cont mcntary on Proverbs (4c,,,,D tmn), and sonu glosses on the Psalms (n+rin riltn 1:+ulp), are the only ones as yet published, the former in Naples 1486, and the latter in Parma 1806. The introduction of his commentary on the Song of Songs has been published with an English transla tion by Ginsburg, Historical and Critical Commen tary on the Song of Songs, Longman 1857, p. 49 55. Immanuel died about 1330. Comp. Zunz, in Geiger's Wissenschaftliche leitschr?ft, Stuttgart 1839, iv. 194, etc. ; Graetz, Geschichte der yuden, Leipzig 1S63, vol. vii. p. 307, ctc.—C. D. G.