LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES - COPY No.16. RARE critical edition of the original Italian text of `Dialoghi d`amore` (`Dialogues of Love`) - an important Renaissance platonic philosophical treatise by Judah Leon Abravanel, and his Hebrew poems. Besides the original Italian text of `Dialoghi d`amore`, this edition includes also Leone`s poems in German translation, a comprehensive introduction to his life and works, as well as an extensive commentary with notes by the eminent German philologist and philosopher Carl Gebhardt (1881-1934), known as a pioneer of modern research on Spinoza. 225x180mm. 122+41+36+66 pages & 270 double pages (altogether ca.805 pages). Quarter-cloth rebound Hardcover. Cover rubbed and slightly stained. Cover edges bumped and peeling. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Sticker residues on cover and spine. Spine faded. Ex-library copy with stamps on title page and last page. Library pocket pasted on rear endpaper. Pencil underlining near text on few pages. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare critical edition with commentary of important works by an influential, though not widely known, Italian Jewish Renaissance philosopher an poet, is in good condition.