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ALMOSNINO, MOSES BEN BARUCH. Regimiento de la vida. Amsterdam: [N.p.]. 5489 [1729]. 4to, contemporary vellum, old repair to upper cover, some staining; minor dampstaining. Kayserling, 11; Palau, 8207; Den Boer, Catalogue [...] Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos,n. 18.
Regimiento de la vida (Government of Life) is an ethical treatise written in the popular medieval and renaissance genre of Mirrors for the Prince, treatises of ethics, behavior and civilization meant as guides for righteous government and social life. Almosnino introduced the novelty of writing such a treatise for the Jewish prince or nobleman. He probably wrote the work for Joseph Nasi, the famous statesman of Marrano origin.
In 1729, three Amsterdam scholars, Samuel Mendes de Sola, Joseph Siprut Gabay and Jehudah Piza, all educated in the rabbinical seminary of Ets Haim, decided to publish the work in Spanish characters, embellishing its style. RARE. NOT IN ROSENTHALIANA. Both the original edition in Ladino (Spanish in Hebrew characters), published in Salonica in 1564, and the present edition are extremely rare.
Regimiento de la vida (Government of Life) is an ethical treatise written in the popular medieval and renaissance genre of Mirrors for the Prince, treatises of ethics, behavior and civilization meant as guides for righteous government and social life. Almosnino introduced the novelty of writing such a treatise for the Jewish prince or nobleman. He probably wrote the work for Joseph Nasi, the famous statesman of Marrano origin.
In 1729, three Amsterdam scholars, Samuel Mendes de Sola, Joseph Siprut Gabay and Jehudah Piza, all educated in the rabbinical seminary of Ets Haim, decided to publish the work in Spanish characters, embellishing its style. RARE. NOT IN ROSENTHALIANA. Both the original edition in Ladino (Spanish in Hebrew characters), published in Salonica in 1564, and the present edition are extremely rare.