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Bidding Information
Lot #    21763
Auction End Date    10/7/2008 12:10:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Grammatica Ebrea Spiegata in Lingua Italiana
Author    R. Simon Calimani
City    Pisa
Publisher    Samuel Molkho
Publication Date    1815
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Second edition. [3], 190, [1] pp., 177:114 mm., age and damp staining, nice margins. A very good copy bound in later half leather and marbled paper over boards, corners tipped in, rubbed..
          
Detailed
Description		    Grammar and poetry by R. Simon Calimani (Simhah; 1699–1784), Italian grammarian, playwright, and poet. Born in Venice, R. Calimani served for many years as a rabbi in his native town. He translated Pirkei Avot ("Ethics of the Fathers") into Italian and wrote a concise Hebrew grammar and an unpublished and incomplete Hebrew-Italian dictionary. He also composed Tokhahat Megullah, an anti-kabbalistic polemic, various poems (one on the occasion of R. M. H. Luzzatto's wedding), and riddles and lamentations, most of which are still in manuscript. R. Calimani's most important works are his dramas: a three-act allegorical play (1734) written for a musical score, and two wedding cantatas (1737 and 1760) - all entitled Kol Simhah ("The Voice of Joy").
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; Steinschneider, Cat Bod, no. 2595f.; Schirmann, Italyah, 410–22; idem, in: Zion, 29 (1964), 63f., 98.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
Language:    Italian, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica