DI FALCO, Benedetto. Rimario del Falco.Napoli, per Matthio Canze da Brescia, 1535
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4to, mm. 205x150; contemporary smooth vellum binding, title written on the back, title written on edges; sheet 294 nn.; Title within frame; handwritten bumbering; errors numbering; italic tupe.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS FUNDAMENTAL RHYMING DICTIONNARY OF ITALIAN. The Rimar Falco is the most authoritative linguistic reflections of the '500. The author proposes a fee that the ancient writers, such as Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio, joins illustrious modern, as Ariosto, Machiavelli, Landino and Bembo. Di Falco becomes supporter of a linguistic reform of utmost importance aimed to make "Italian idiom ... a common language." Benedetto di Falco, Neapolitan scholar, the most important disseminators of the language in Italy in the sixteenth century, joined to that literary circle which had among its members Pietro Bembo and Paulus Manutius.
Olschki, Choix, IV, 4438.
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FIRST EDITION OF THIS FUNDAMENTAL RHYMING DICTIONNARY OF ITALIAN. The Rimar Falco is the most authoritative linguistic reflections of the '500. The author proposes a fee that the ancient writers, such as Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio, joins illustrious modern, as Ariosto, Machiavelli, Landino and Bembo. Di Falco becomes supporter of a linguistic reform of utmost importance aimed to make "Italian idiom ... a common language." Benedetto di Falco, Neapolitan scholar, the most important disseminators of the language in Italy in the sixteenth century, joined to that literary circle which had among its members Pietro Bembo and Paulus Manutius.
Olschki, Choix, IV, 4438.
Condition Report: Fine specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
