Isaie

1878 · 41398 — Padoue: F. Sacchetto 1878. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/300. Quarto 9 x 6 1/2". XV 1 135 1pp. Modern blue cloth. <br /> <br /> Samuel David Luzzatto 1800-1865 was an Italian Rabbi poet grammarian scholar of Hebrew letters and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. He is also known by his Hebrew acronym Shadal. During his literary career of more than fifty years Luzzatto wrote a great number of works and scholarly correspondences in Hebrew Italian German and French. Besides he contributed to most of the Hebrew and Jewish periodicals of his time. His correspondence with his contemporaries is both voluminous and instructive; there being hardly any subject in connection with Judaism on which he did not write. <br /> <br /> Published by his son Isaiah thirteen years after his death this work is an index of his correspondence preceded by a foreword and followed by previously unpublished correspondence.<br /> <br /> One of 300 unnumbered copies.<br /> <br /> Sporadic foxing throughout. Pages evenly age-toned. Text in French. Binding in very good interior in good to good condition. Isaia Luzzatto 1836-1898 was Samuel David Luzzatto's younger son. A lawyer active in his hometown he collected his father's works to which he devoted several introductory publications. In a letter to the Italian Jewish periodical "L'Educatore Israelita" vol. XIX/1871: 22 Isaiah Luzzatto announced his intention to gather his father's massive correspondence including all personal letters and asked the readers to send him all available copies in their possession. A selection of these letters were published in this copy of "Index raisonné des livres de correspondance de feu Samuel David Luzzatto. F. Sacchetto hardcover