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BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). Prose [...] nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua. Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1525.
First edition of a seminal work on the Italian vernacular. Bembo’s influential treatise, which holds as a model the 14th-century Tuscan of writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio, remains a pivotal text in the history of the Italian language. BM/STC Italian 81.
Folio (305 x 208mm). Title printed on verso of A1 (minor repairs and light thumb-soiling on title, stain in a few leaves, some worming touching a few letters). Later half calf, spine gilt (rubbed, repaired at spine). Provenance: annotations in a neat contemporary humanist hand – label removed from title verso.
First edition of a seminal work on the Italian vernacular. Bembo’s influential treatise, which holds as a model the 14th-century Tuscan of writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio, remains a pivotal text in the history of the Italian language. BM/STC Italian 81.
Folio (305 x 208mm). Title printed on verso of A1 (minor repairs and light thumb-soiling on title, stain in a few leaves, some worming touching a few letters). Later half calf, spine gilt (rubbed, repaired at spine). Provenance: annotations in a neat contemporary humanist hand – label removed from title verso.
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