Editions

• Abrabanel, Judah (Ebreo, Leone). Dialoghi d’amore. Ed. Santino Caramella. Bari: Laterza e Figli, 1929.
• –––. Dialoghi d’amore. Tradutione e introduzione ebraica di Menachem Dorman. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1983.
• –––. Dialogos de amor. Leao Hebreu. Traduzido por Giacinto Manuppella. Testo italiano e versao portuguesa, note e documenti. 2 vols. Lisboa: Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Cientifica, 1983.
• –––. Dialogues d’amour. Trans. into French attributed to Pontus de Tyard. Edited by T. Anthony Perry, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
• –––. The Philosophy of Love. Trans. into English by F. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes and introduction by Cecil Roth. London: Soncino Press, 1937.
• –––. Dialogues of Love. Trans into English by Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

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