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BUOMMATTEI, BENEDETTO. Della lingua Toscana di Benedetto Boumattei pubblico lettore di essa nello studio Pisano, e Fiorentino libri duo.
Firenze, Stamperia di S.A.R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1714. "Impressione Quarta," lg. 8vo, pp. [12], xxxxxxii [i.e. lxii], [2], 406, [10]; engraved portrait, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces; old mottled paper-covered boards on which is penned an early holograph accounting of money in Italian, but in pounds and pence; near fine copy. The work is an important one. It was probably first printed in Florence in 1643 and went through a number of editions well into the 18th century. This edition bears the corrections of the famed Academia della Crusca, the most influential of all scholarly organizations in northern Italy, as well as a 52-p. life of the author. The Tuscan city state was the first in Italy to undertake a standardization of their language, and the work of Buommattei and others on the Tuscan dialect provided a valuable benchmark for later Italian philologists, including the Academy.
Offered for US$ 481.25 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 579