LENTULO, Scipione

by Scipione Lentulo

£19,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

Very rare, beautifully printed, first edition of the translation into English of this Italian grammar, from the library of Sir Edward Coke, finely bound with his monogram on the covers. The work is a translation of Lentulo s Italicae grammatices praecepta by Henry Grantham, a popular Italian grammar, republished in 1587. One other Grammar was issued in England just prior to the publication of [Florio s] Firste Fruits , a translation of Scipione Lentulo s Italicae gramatices praecepta ac ratio by Henry Grantham (who in 1567 also published a translation of a fragment of Boccaccio s Philocolo, A pleasaunt disport of divers noble personages ), the original of which Migliorini notes was written specifically with foreigners in Italy in mind. An Italian grammer appeared first in 1575 (reprinted in 1587) and provided a solid basis for the beginners acquisition of Italian, based as it was upon the most servicable among the many [such] works then available in Italy it is not only extremely clear, but completely unadorned, even more so than Thomas, for the most part schematic, with little commentary of exemplification, to the point that it often seems more a grammatical survey than a grammar Michael Wyatt. The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation. Hassel catalogued 1,237 items from the library of Sir Edward Coke, which reveal the great variety of his reading; apart from the expected yearbooks, Reports and Registers of Writs, there are such diverse ite

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