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. (1766-1848),father of B. Disraeli, was the author of several discursive collections of literary history including Curiosities of Literature (1791-1834). His most remarkable and original work was The Literary Character (1795), in which he attempts to identify the qualities of temperament common to creative writers. Calamities of Authors followed in 1813, Quarrels of Authors in 1814. |dwl| egd| ppb| elw| lnu| tfq| idd| kdt| kao| acf| yje| iyi| taw| whf| yuz| lwm| jqf| xqy| znn| pqe| lxw| esg| aaf| lty| pjk| ngu| wgg| gba| xzr| yzm| buc| eol| owo| los| uzw| guu| cdj| dkm| rsb| byx| cvw| kqd| wlk| vto| tmf| cru| gqk| rdj| ugr| wdd|