 At around 1490 Del Medigo returned to Crete. As is often the case with details concerning Del Medigo’s life, the reasons for his return are not entirely clear. According to Ross, Del Medigo experienced general discomfort with a growing intellectual trend of the Italian Renaissance, oriented more towards Neoplatonic and Kabbalistic tendencies than towards the rationalist speculation of the Aristotelian schools of the Middle Ages (see Ross 1984: 24–25). Be it as it may, it was following his return to Crete and during the last years of his life that Del Medigo composed what would become his most famous work, Beḥinat ha-Dat, which will be discussed in detail below. Del Medigo died in Candia around 1492/1493 (Ross 1984: 21–22; Licata 2013a: 48),