Poetry · Shimshon Chaim Nachmani · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · Moisè Soave (annotator) · 18th c. · Padua · Wedding Poem · Broadside · Printed Book · Annotations

שיר חתונה למשה חיים לוצאטו וצפורה פינצי — תצ״א

Wedding Poem for the Ramchal — Moshe Chaim Luzzatto & Tzippora Finzi (1731)

Italy, 1731 · The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary

A printed broadside (50 × 37 cm, with woodcut decorations) distributed at the 1731 wedding of R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (the Ramchal, 1707–1747) to Tzippora bat R' David Finzi of Mantua, composed for the occasion by the Italian Hebrew poet Shimshon Chaim Nachmani. The wedding took place on August 29, 1731. The copy bears marginal annotations by the 19th-century Italian Jewish scholar and bibliographer Moisè Soave (1820–1882). A downloadable PDF facsimile is also available.