ABRAVANEL, Juda ben Isaac.

by Juda ben Isaac Abravanel

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Abravanel s (1465 ca. 1535) important philosophical treatise on love, first published posthumously in 1535. The Dialoghi was exceedingly popular and went through at least five editions (four by Aldus) in twenty years, and was quickly translated into French, Hebrew and Latin. It is notably one of the first original philosophical compositions to be published in the vernacular. Don Yehudah Abrabanel, the son of Rabbi Yitshak Abrabanel, has been one of the most extraordinary and fascinating personalities in Jewish philosophy on the threshold of modernity. His Dialoghi d Amore has become one of the most celebrated books of Renaissance literature and thought. Despite his personal afflictions the expulsion from Spain in 1492, the abduction and forced conversion of his son by the King of Portugal (about which he wrote a moving poem complaint on the times ) he has bequeathed to us one of the most outstanding philosophical books of the epoch. Dialoghi d Amore is one of the chief expressions of Italian Platonism, revived and flourishing at the time. Ze ev Levy.Modeled on the Platonic dialogue, the Dialoghi d Amore examines the nature of spiritual and intellectual love, which is regarded by Abravanel as the principle dominating all existence, reaching its apotheosis in the love of God. He structured his three dialogues as a conversation between two characters , Philo, representing love, and Sophia, representing science or wisdom. The first dialogue is a contemplation on the distinctions

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