first edition
1604 · Venice
by Monosini, Angelo
Venice: Io. Guerilium, 1604. First and only edition, small 4to, pp. [20], 434, [62]; contemporary full limp vellum, morocco label, vellum soiled, mild waterstain enters at top margin and pervades most of text, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce title. A collection of excerpts from Italian literature, proberbs, maxims, etc., with comments thereon, including books on diction, syntax, the art of translation into Italian from Greek and Latin, with notes on the Etruscan and Florentine dialects, etc. Contains author index, phraseology and general index.
(Inventory #: 565)