Andrea De Monte (; died before 1597) was a Moroccan Jewish convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews at Rome.[1]
Andrea(s) De Monte (Hebrew: אנדריאס די מונטי) or Andrea (Filippo) di Monti (more correctly del Monte), so named, in honour of Julius III, after he had accepted Christianity (before his conversion he was called R. Joseph Tsarpathi Ha-Alphasi (יוסף צרפתי האלפסי), was born in the early part of the 16th century at Fez, in Morocco (hence his second surname, האלפסי), and thus is sometimes called Joseph Moro, of Jewish parents, who were natives of France, which is indicated by his first surname (צרפתי, Gallus).
He emigrated to Rome, where, after exercising the office of chief rabbi for many years, and distinguishing himself as an expounder of the Mosaic law, he embraced Christianity about the year 1552, during the pontificate of Julius III. He at once consecrated his knowledge of Hebrew and rabbinical literature to the elucidation of the prophecies, with a view to bringing his brethren into the fold of the Roman Church.
Gregory XIII appointed Monte in 1576 preacher to the Hebrews of Rome in the oratory of the Holy Trinity; he was afterwards made Oriental interpreter to the pope, in which capacity he translated several ecclesiastical works from the Syriac and Arabic. He died in the beginning of the 17th century,[2] or before 1597.