![CARDOSO, ISAAC FERNANDO. Las excelencias de los Hebreos. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, 1679. 4to, contemporary goatskin, wear to spine; browning and staining, with the second subdivisional title "Las excelencias y calunias de los Hebreos" inserted at beginning, lacking preliminary blank (?). Wolf I, 1265; Rib.Santos, 313, Kayserling, 34, Palau 44099, Neves 30; De n Boer, Catalogue [...] Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos, n. 251.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYE/1998_NYE_08105_0131_000(105152).jpg?w=1)
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CARDOSO, ISAAC FERNANDO. Las excelencias de los Hebreos. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, 1679. 4to, contemporary goatskin, wear to spine; browning and staining, with the second subdivisional title "Las excelencias y calunias de los Hebreos" inserted at beginning, lacking preliminary blank (?). Wolf I, 1265; Rib.Santos, 313, Kayserling, 34, Palau 44099, Neves 30; De n Boer, Catalogue [...] Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos, n. 251.
This famous apology of Judaism was written by the former converso, the physician Fernando Cardoso. Born in Trancoso, Portugal, Cardoso was one of the many Portuguese New Christian immigrants who settled in Spain in the early seventeenth century. He studied at Salamanca and was accorded the title of "phisico mayor" or court physician by Philip IV. Afterwards he practised as a physician in Madrid, where he gained access to the highest literary and social circles. Fearing persecution by the Inquisition, he fled to Venice. He subsequently settled in Verona. His comprehensive apologetic work Las excelencias y calunias de los Hebreos described ten virtues of the Jewish people and refuted ten common calumnies. It has been considered "a masterpiece of Jewish anti-defamation, perhaps the most striking since Josephus's Contra Apionem". See Enc. Judaica, s.v. "Cardozo, Isaac" and Y.H. Yerushalmi on Cardoso's Excelencias in Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Treasures of Jewish Booklore. Amsterdam, AUP, 1995, p. 21. Sold not subject to return.
This famous apology of Judaism was written by the former converso, the physician Fernando Cardoso. Born in Trancoso, Portugal, Cardoso was one of the many Portuguese New Christian immigrants who settled in Spain in the early seventeenth century. He studied at Salamanca and was accorded the title of "phisico mayor" or court physician by Philip IV. Afterwards he practised as a physician in Madrid, where he gained access to the highest literary and social circles. Fearing persecution by the Inquisition, he fled to Venice. He subsequently settled in Verona. His comprehensive apologetic work Las excelencias y calunias de los Hebreos described ten virtues of the Jewish people and refuted ten common calumnies. It has been considered "a masterpiece of Jewish anti-defamation, perhaps the most striking since Josephus's Contra Apionem". See Enc. Judaica, s.v. "Cardozo, Isaac" and Y.H. Yerushalmi on Cardoso's Excelencias in Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Treasures of Jewish Booklore. Amsterdam, AUP, 1995, p. 21. Sold not subject to return.