Giuseppe Baretti
La Frusta Letteraria, Complete in Two Volumes
Milano, Italy, Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in two volumes, wholly in Italian language, blue and tan marbled paper over boards, heavily rubbed, also heavily rubbed paper title labels over spines (spelling his surname "Bareti"), rubbed and scuffed extremities, foxed endpapers, a few scattered ink blotches, but remarkably bright interiors overall. Paulo Caronni's fine black-and-white engraving of Baretti graces the frontis of Volume I. Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (24 April 1719, Turin, Piedmont – 5 May 1789, London) was something of a polymath, he being fluent in multiple languages and also something of a "literary critic, poet, writer, translator, linguist and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries" (Wikipedia). He was acquitted of murder by fruit-knife, he got in hot water for his translations of the works of Galileo, and started a literary journal of literary criticism, this work here, Frusta Letteraria (Literary Scourge). It was published posthumously but in his lifetime it encountered considerable difficulties. This is the first collection of his important works of literary criticism. Volume I: xviii, 1-479 pp.; [5], 6-489 pp. and including index and note of errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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