Samuel ben Judah Valerio () 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

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in 1579, published in

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in 1586), a commentary on the

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, and ''Ḥazon la-Mo'ed'' (completed in a village near

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in 1580, published in Venice in 1586), a philosophical commentary on the

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. There is an extract from the latter commentary in the

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of Amsterdam (1724–27). Valerio wrote also ''Emeḳ ha-Bakha'', ''Pi Ḥakham'', and ''Bet ha-Malkhut'', which remained in manuscript.

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