PINAMONTI, GIOVANNI PIETRO. Synagoga Dezenganada [“The Synagogue Disenchanted.”] Translated from Italian to Portuguese by Sebatiaõ Monteiro da Vide

Estimate

$800–$1,200

Hammer price

$1,300

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author

(ANTISEMITICA)

printer

Officina da Musica

Place

Lisbon

Publication

1720

Description

FIRST PORTUGUESE EDITION

summary

This anti-Jewish polemic by the Italian Jesuit Pinamonti (1632-1703), was first published in Bologna in 1694 and "Aimed to reveal Jewish falsities of the past and the Truth according to the laws of Christianity." This Portuguese edition was prepared by Sebastião Monteiro da Vide (1643-1722), archbishop of the city of Bahia, northeastern Brazil. In his introduction da Vide alludes to his experience with members of the Hebrew Nation in Portugals's prize colony of Brazil. See G.A. Kohut, Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America (1895) pp. 27-8

pp. (20), 379, (1 blank). Some worming along extreme upper margins, affecting few letters, few stains. Contemporary calf, neat repairs to extremeties. 4to

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