Beschreibung:

circa 14 x 8 cm., 232 pp., 4 ff., with some woodcut ornaments and 2 printer s devices. Later full vellum with marbled endpapers Cf. Gamba 1360. Fourth edition of this very successful work on the Italian language, first published on 1550 as "osservationi nella volgar lingua". Dolce (1508-1568) discusses whether the proper name should be "Italian" or rather "Tuscan" (Thoscana). The four books then describe its grammar, orthography, punctuation and poetry. Bongi calls this compilation a "centone" but exactly because of the fact that the information has been taken from various other grammars and skillfully as well as elegantly compressed, Dolce s work proved popular and influential.

Bemerkung:

- Just a little dusty, but mostly clean, just a little rubbed, nice.