(RaMCHa”L). Leshon Limudim [rules of poetry, with Kabbalistic influence]

Leshon Limudim was Luzzatto’s first appearance in print, composed when the author was just twenty years old. The work is dedicated to Luzzatto’s mentor, Rabbi Isaiah Bassani and includes a poem in honor of the author by David Finzi, who would eventually become Luzzatto’s father-in-law. This is the first of three parts of the work. Parts two and three of Leshon Limudim were published from manuscript by Haberman more than two centuries later (Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 1945). See Waxman, History of Jewish Literature III, pp. 104-5. E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) p. 195.