Socrate, ouero, Dell`humano Sapere Esercitio Seriogiocoso.

AUCTION 76 | Thursday, June 14th, 2018 at 3:00 PM
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 215
LUZZATTO, SIMONE

Socrate, ouero, Dell`humano Sapere Esercitio Seriogiocoso.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Engraved title vignette of insect emerging from shell pp. (8), 316, (7). Browned and stained in places. Later vellum. 4to.

Venice: Tomasini 1651

Est: $2,000 - $3,000
“Written in dialogue form with Socrates as the principle interlocutor, [the work] is an attempt to demonstrate that human reason is impotent unless assisted by revelation…[Luzzatto] shows a considerable degree of competence in philosophy and in the classical literature…and is a remarkable exemplification of the degree of culture prevailing at the time in the Italian ghettos.” (EJ, XI col. 607).