The Philosophy of Love

A first Spanish translation was produced by Gedaliah ibn Yahya original: "Guedella Yahia" in Venice, 1568, in-quarto in-quarto: a book size where each sheet of paper is folded twice to create four leaves, or eight pages.

A second translation in the same language is that of Garcilaso Inca de la Vega The famous historian and son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman, published in Madrid by Madrigal in 1590, in-quarto.

This same work is found printed in the Writers of the Cabalistic Art original: "Scriptores artis Cabalisticæ", according to the Latin translation by Johannes Carolus Saracenus; it was originally written in Italian.

One of the first editions of the French translation by Du Parc, Champenois Denis Sauvage, a Renaissance translator and historiographer is the Paris edition of 1551, in-duodecimo in-duodecimo: a small book size where each sheet is folded into twelve leaves — also Lyon, Rouillé, 1551, 2 volumes in 1, in-octavo in-octavo: a common book size where each sheet is folded into eight leaves, and 1559, in-sixdecimo in-sixdecimo: a very small "pocket" size book with sixteen leaves per sheet, consisting of 820 pages excluding the index tables.

The first original edition of this work by Leone Abravanel original: "Leone Abarbanel" was printed in Rome by Antonio Blado in 1535, in-quarto, but is less sought after by collectors than the Aldine editions Books produced by the famous Aldine Press in Venice, known for their high quality and anchor-and-dolphin logo of 1541, 1545, 1549, 1552, and 1558, for example, in-octavo.