sentences:  As examples of the use of his work he issued a specimen of the Targum on "Esther" (Rome, 1782; 2d ed., revised, Tübingen, 1783).He was also interested in the polemics of Judaism and Christianity, and wrote on this subject his "Della Vana Aspettazione degli Ebrei del loro Re Messia" (Parma, 1773), which he defended in a pamphlet two years later; he further published a list of anti-Christian writers, "Bibliotheca Judaica Antichristiana" (Parma, 1800).A select Hebrew lexicon, in which he utilized Parḥon's work (Parma, 1805), and an introduction to Hebrew (ib.