Samuel Valerio

Samuel ben Judah Valerio (Hebrew: שמואל בן יהודה ווליריאו) was a Jewish physician and author who lived in the Grecian Archipelago in the second half of the sixteenth century. He wrote Yad ha-Melekh (completed in Corfu in 1579, published in Venice in 1586), a commentary on the Book of Esther, and Ḥazon la-Mo'ed (completed in a village near Patras in 1580, published in Venice in 1586), a philosophical commentary on the Book of Daniel. There is an extract from the latter commentary in the rabbinical Bible of Amsterdam (1724–27). Valerio wrote also Emeḳ ha-Bakha, Pi Ḥakham, and Bet ha-Malkhut, which remained in manuscript.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Cassuto, Umberto (1906). "Valerio, Samuel ben Judah". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 397.