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- Female
- December 1, 1775
- Isaac (D'israeli) Disraeli
- March 1, 1847
Disraeli was born on 21 December 1804 at 6 King's Road, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury, London, the second child and eldest son of Isaac D'Israeli, a literary critic and historian, and Maria (Miriam), née Basevi.
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His wife, Maria Basevi, took over the practical affairs of the family and bore him four sons, Benjamin, Raphael, Jacob, and Naphtali, and a daughter, Sarah. Benjamin was born December 21, 1804, “or according to the Jewish reckoning the nineteenth of Tebet, 5565,” as his chief biographer, Monypenny, puts it.
- Introduction
- Ancestors
- Early Life and Education
- A Literary Vocation
- Legacy, Marriage and Children
- Bradenham House
- Late Years and Death
- Conclusion
- Selections from Curiosities of Literature
- References and Further Reading
Isaac D’Israeli, father of Benjamin Disraeli, a two-time British prime minister and a novelist, is much less known today than his renowned son although throughout the 19th century he enjoyed deserved recognition and respect as one of the most learned men of his time. Although he lived during the Romantic period, he belonged spiritually to the Age o...
Isaac was born at Enfield, Middlesex, on 11 May 1766 into a wealthy Jewish family. His parents were Benjamin D’Israeli (1730-1816) and his second wife Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villareal Disraeli. The ancestors of his father were the exiled Spanish Jews (Sephardim), who settled in Italy after their expulsion from Spain in the 15th century. Isaac’s fath...
Little is known about Isaac’s early education. His first teacher was a Scotchman, named Morison, who ran a preparatory school in the neighbourhood. The young boy did not appear to have made much progress in his studies. Although he developed a passion for reading in his early boyhood, he was averse from regular study. At the local school he learnt ...
In the late 1780s, Isaac travelled through France and Italy, and spent a considerable part of this time in Paris, where he mingled in literary society. Unaware of the impending French Revolution, he devoted himself to the study of French literature. When he returned home in 1788, he brought with him a collection of valuable French and Italian books...
A handsome legacy from Isaac’s maternal grandmother, who died in 1791, allowed him to live as a man of independent means (Leonard 5). He rented a comfortable set of chambers on the first floor of the Adelphi House in order to frequent the Reading Room at the British Museum, where he spent most of his time reading and talking to men of letters and p...
Isaac D’Israeli was concerned about the deteriorating health of his son Benjamin and his wife, so in 1829 he decided ‘to quit London with all its hourly seductions’ (Hibbert 49) and to rent Bradenham House in Buckinghamshire, a fine, late seventeenth-century manor in the village of Bradenham, about three hours’ coach ride from London. It was undoub...
D’Israeli’s eyesight had been steadily declining, but after 1841, he became effectively blind, due to paralysis of the optic nerve, and although he submitted to an operation, his sight was not restored. He was unable to read and write. Esteemed by his contemporaries, D’Israeli died of influenza in the eighty-first year of age, at his country seat, ...
Isaac D’Israeli, a self-taught scholar and bibliophile, who never completed any formal training, lived exclusively for literature. He was more than a compiler of literary anecdotes and curiosities. His scholarly writings, today almost forgotten, stimulated a taste for historical inquiry and criticism. He was among the first scholars who made litera...
“Prefaces”“Titles of Books”“The Talmud”“The Jews of York”Blake, Robert. Disraeli. London: Eyre & Spottiswode Publishers, 1967. D’Israeli, Isaac. Curiosities of Literature. London: John Murray, 1791. ____. Literary Miscellanies Including A Dissertation on Anecdotes. A New Edition Enlarged (London: John Murray, 1801. ____. Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature...
On 10 February 1802, D'Israeli married Maria Basevi (1774/5–1847), who came from another London merchant family of Italian-Jewish descent.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Benjamin Disraeli (born December 21, 1804, London, England—died April 19, 1881, London) was a British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874–80) and who provided the Conservative Party with a twofold policy of Tory democracy and imperialism.
