LASHON LIMUDIM: TITBAER BO HA-MELITSAH VE-HUKOTEHA.
Lemberg: [Gedrukt Bay A. T. Rubinshtayn], 1810. Item #37204
Period boards. 8vo, 91 pages, 19 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “A Tongue for Teaching. ” “Luzzatto (1707-1746) was born in Padua, Italy, into one of the most important, oldest, and most respectable families in Italian Jewry. Regarded as a genius from childhood, he knew Bible, Talmud, Midrash, halakhic literature, and classical languages and literature thoroughly. He also had an extensive knowledge of contemporary Italian culture. Luzzatto had a good scientific education, but his chief interest in Western culture was in literature. ” He was a “kabbalist, writer of ethical works, rhetorician, logician, and Hebrew poet [and] leader of a group of religious thinkers who were mainly interested in the problems of redemption and messianism and probably tried to use their mystical knowledge to hasten the era of redemption. ” (EJ, 2007) This is the Ramhal’s first work, published at 17. SUBJECTS: Hebrew language -- Rhetoric. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Title page and Contents page are facsimiles. Otherwise Internally Very Good. (HEB-49-1).
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