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RICCHI, RAPHAEL IMMANUEL CHAI. Chazah Tzion [Kabbalistic commentary to Tehillim, with text]. FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title. A fine copy. ff. 138, (2). Modern boards. Folio. Vinograd, Livorno 34. Livorno, Abraham Ricchi for Abraham Meldola, 1742. The author’s son, Avraham Shmuel Ricchi, includes a biography of his father’s life as an appendix to this work. He describes his father’s journey to Italy and subsequent murder on the highway between Modena and Bologna, a fact dreamt by Raphael Ricchi in Jerusalem in which he envisioned he was a reincarnation of the Tana R. Yehudah ben Baba who was killed by the Romans and was one of the ‘Asarah HaRugei Malchuth.’