(alias Canossa). Hebraicarum literaum regii interpretis, de modo legendi haebraice: dialogus.

PARADISUS, PAULUS

Nicolines de Sabio & Melchior Sessa

Venice

1534

FIRST EDITION. Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Printer’s device on title and last page.

Both Adams P-308 and Fürst p. 65 only record a Paris 1534 edition of this work.

This rare, early Hebrew primer by a converted Jew of the Venetian Del Banco family, takes the literary form of a dialogue between two fictional characters, Martialis and his son Matthaeus. Among the works cited in the text are Reuchlin’s De Arte de Cabbalistica and Galatino’s De Arcanis. See S. Simonsohn, The Apostolic See and the Jews (1991) pp. 273-4.