RARE collection of six lectures on the life and works of an influential Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (1437-1508, also spelled Abravanel, Avravanel or Abrabanel), delivered on the occasion of the quingentenary of his birth. [CONTENTS]: 1.Introduction - Paul Goodman. 2.Spain in the Age of Abravanel - I.Gozales Llubera. 3.Abravanel`s Literary Work - Moses Gaster (delivered by his son T.H.Gaster). 4.Abravanel as exegete - L.Rabinowitz. 5.On Abravanel`s Philosophical Tendency and Political Tendency and Political Teaching - Leo Strauss. 6.Leone Ebreo and the Renaissance - A.R.Milburn. Contains 4 b&w plates. 220x145mm. XXVIII+157 pages. Black cloth Hardcover with gilt spine. Cover slightly rubbed and dirty. Cover corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine yellowing and dirty. Spine edges peeling/tattered. Small ink/pen inscriptions on front whitepage upper edge. Binding slightly visible between several pages. Inner cover and pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare collection of papers on the preeminent Jewish historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages is otherwise in good condition.