Raziel a Roma, le copie di Egidio da Viterbo (1469-1532)

This article delves into the multifaceted corpus of astral-magic and angelological works bearing the title of Razi’el (“the angel of the Heavenly secrets”). On the one hand, it focuses on the transmission of different collections called Razi’el between the early Middle Ages and Modern Times. On the other hand, the purpose of the essay is to shed light on a particular branch of this tradition, which spread in the Renaissance Rome in the context of the cabbalistic milieu of the Christian Hebraist Giles of Viterbo (1469-1532). Notably, the second part of the research deals with the origins of the Hebrew Razi’el ha-Gadol and with the Latin and Italian translations of Razi’el from Giles of Viterbo’s Library; they are related to the mystical work by El‘azar of Worms (1176-1238), Sode Rezayya, according to the Hebrew copy achieved by Elijah Levita (1469-1549) in 1515.