# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-of-capua
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:59:27.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-of-capua"
name: "John of Capua"
slug: "john-of-capua"
description: "John of Capua also known as Johannes de Capua and Giovanni da Capua was an Italian Jewish convert to Christianity, and a translator. He translated Rabbi Joel's Hebrew version of Kalilah wa-Dimnah into Latin under the title Directorium Vitae Humanae. His translation was the source from which that work became so widely spread in almost all European languages. It was edited by Joseph Derenbourg. John of Capua also translated Maimonides' Dietary and Ibn Zuhr's (Avenzoar's) Al-Taisir, on diseases."
tagline: "Italian writer and translator"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1250"
deathDate: "1310"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.51
  momentum:             0.2439024390243902
  historical:           5.871202666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Capua"
    title: "John of Capua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AD%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "يوحنا الكابوني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_von_Capua"
    title: "Johann von Capua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Иоанн Капуанский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Capoue"
    title: "Jean de Capoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_da_Capua"
    title: "Giovanni da Capua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956946"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump