Jehuda Abravanel (called Leone Ebreo), Dialoghi d'amore. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1541

First printed in 1535 but already completed in 1505, Abravanel's Dialoghi d'amore was one of the works to contribute most to the dissemination of the Kabbalah, outside the more specialized studies of for instance Pico and Reuchlin. In Pistorius' compendium Artis cabalisticae, for instance, the Dialoghi occupy an important place. In this metaphysical work on love, Abravanel (c.1460–after 1523) fused original interpretations of biblical and rabbinic traditions and of Greek myths.