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GIAMBULLARI, Pierfrancesco. Origine della lingua fiorentina, altrimenti il Gello. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1549. 8° (156 x 93mm). (Light spotting throughout.) 18th-century Italian vellum, a red and a black label on spine. Provenance: Giovanni de Bizzari (late 18th-century bookplate).
Second, improved, edition (the first appeared three years earlier) of Gelli's eccentric theory that the Italian, or Tuscan, language derived from the ancient Etruscan and was therefore a sister language to Hebrew and Chaldean and a daughter language to Aramaic. Gamba 516 'Raro'; Adams G-587.
MASSOLO, Pietro. Sonetti morali. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1558. 8° (176 x 100mm). Small woodcut device on title, final colophon leaf. (Some light spotting on a few leaves, short marginal tear in penultimate leaf.) 19th-century Italian vellum, green lettering-piece. Second, enlarged, edition of the sonnets of this Venetian poet whose mother had been a friend of Bembo and who, following the breakdown of his marriage, became a monk. The sonnets are addressed to, inter alios, Paolo Manuzio, Trissino, Caro and Sansovino. Brunet III-1521. (2)
Second, improved, edition (the first appeared three years earlier) of Gelli's eccentric theory that the Italian, or Tuscan, language derived from the ancient Etruscan and was therefore a sister language to Hebrew and Chaldean and a daughter language to Aramaic. Gamba 516 'Raro'; Adams G-587.
MASSOLO, Pietro. Sonetti morali. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1558. 8° (176 x 100mm). Small woodcut device on title, final colophon leaf. (Some light spotting on a few leaves, short marginal tear in penultimate leaf.) 19th-century Italian vellum, green lettering-piece. Second, enlarged, edition of the sonnets of this Venetian poet whose mother had been a friend of Bembo and who, following the breakdown of his marriage, became a monk. The sonnets are addressed to, inter alios, Paolo Manuzio, Trissino, Caro and Sansovino. Brunet III-1521. (2)