Kestenbaum & Company
(ITALY)

Auction 35 · Lot 147

(ITALY)

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

n.p.

Place

Mantua

Publication

1781

Description

Nell’ Occasione di manifestare l’Universita’ degli Ebrei di Mantova il loro cordoglio per la seguita morte di S.M.I.R.A. Maria Teresa. stanze di Bonajuto isac Levi Ebreo Mantovano. [“On the occasion of the Jewish Community of Mantua expressing their condolences for the death of Her Imperial Highness Maria Theresa of Austria. Poems by Azriel Isaac Levi, Mantuan Jew.”]

references

Vinograd, Mantua 518

summary

Azriel Isaac Levi (d.1809) was a rabbi and scribe of the Mantuan community at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. It appears he was an extremely versatile poet, able to versify in both the sacred and vernacular tongues. See S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977), pp. 617-618, 718
pp. (15).Faintest stains, loose black wrappers. Lg. 4to
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