A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/D'Israeli, Isaac

by John William Cousin

D'Israeli, Isaac (1766-1848).—Miscellaneous writer, was decended from a Jewish family which had been settled first in Spain, and afterwards at Venice. Ed. at Amsterdam and Leyden, he devoted himself to literature, producing a number of interesting works of considerable value, including Curiosities of Literature, in 3 series (1791-1823), Dissertation on Anecdotes (1793), Calamities of Authors (1812), Amenities of Literature (1841); also works dealing with the lives of James I. and Charles I. D. was latterly blind. He was the f. of Benjamin D., Earl of Beaconsfield (q.v.).

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