Dialogues about Love – philosophic work by the physician Don Yehudah Abarbanel. Venice, 1565.
Don Yehudah Abarbanel was a rabbi, a doctor, a poet and a philosopher – son of the renowned Rabbi Don Yitzchak Abarbanel. Together with his father, he left for Naples with the Spanish Expulsion. He served there as court physician, and simultaneously wrote his widespread work – popular among both Jews and non-Jews – that was translated into many languages. The book was first published in Hebrew by the Mekitzei Nirdamim Society in 1871 under the title Debate about Love [ “ויכוח על אהבה”].
246 pp. 14 cm. Italian.
Very fine condition. Antique half parchment binding.