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(SEPHARDIC LITERATURE). (NIETO, DAVID). Respuesta al Sermon, predicado por el Arobispo de Cangranor, en el Auto de Fe; celebrado en Lisboa, en 6. Setiembre Anno 1705. Por el Author de las Noticias Reconditas de la Inquisicion. pp. x, 104. “Villa Franca, ” (The City of Freedom, i.e. London), “Charles Vero” (Charles Truth), 1728/1729?  * BOUND WITH: ANUNCIACOA JUSTINIANO, DIOGO DA. Sermam do Auto da Fe que se celebrou na Praza do Rocio desta Cidade de Lisboa, junto dos Pazos da Inquisizam, em 6. de Setembro, do Anno de 1705. pp. (2), 89. Lisbon, Antonio Pedro Ozogalrao, 1705. [false imprint for: London, 1729]. FIRST EDITION. Two works bound together (as issued). Browned. Opening title worn, final leaf with paper repairs affecting couple of words. Modern boards. 8vo. Kayserling 77 An anonymously penned response by the celebrated HAHAM OF LONDON to a vicious sermon preached before sixty-six miserable victims of an auto-da-fé held in Lisbon in 1705. The brutal tirade was delivered by Dom Diego da Annunciacoa Justiniano, the titular Archbishop of Cranganor, India. Upon it’s publication, Nieto was moved to provide a fitting response to the Archbishop’s severe misuses of Jewish sources in attempting to prove the truth of Christianity. Nieto’s brilliant tract is one of cool, clear-headed theological scholarship. The enterprise was necessitated by the relentless pressure exerted by the Inquisition upon the Marranos of Portugal, a painful and ongoing problem of 18th century Jewish life. The Haham’s Spanish reply was issued together here with the original Portuguese sermon of 1705. (Moses Mocatta produced an English translation of this celebrated work in 1845, which Isaac Leeser published in Philadelphia in 1860). After noting just two copies of Nieto’s refutation held in private hands, Israel Solomons records that “not a single copy is known to exist in any public library.” (See JHSET, Vol. XII pp. 1-99, esp. p. 55). See also H.P. Salomon, New Light on the Portuguese Inquisition: The Second Reply to the Archbishop of Cranganor, in: Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. V no. 2 (1971) pp. 178-86. Another copy of this book was sold by Kestenbaum, Sale 62, lot 133.