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

LUZZATTO, MOSES CHAIM.

Raphael Hayim D’Italia

Mantua

1727

First edition. Hebrew text, with Latin and Italian side-bars.

Vinograd, Mantua 340.

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.