MIRANDA de, Juan

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Rare first edition, first issue, of this important Spanish grammar written for Italians by the religious Juan De Miranda, a writer and grammarian from Valladolid living in Venice, which served as a model to scholars from all over Europe and was reprinted several times, as being the most effective and complete early pedagogical grammar of Spanish written for speakers of other languages. The address to the reader highlights the difficulties in learning Spanish and the usefulness of the work which deals with general morphology and some peculiarities of Castilian grammar and especially usage. It is divided into 4 parts: I, pronunciation and inflected parts of speech (article, noun, adjective and pronoun); II, the verb (regular and irregular) and its conjunction; III, the non-inflected parts of speech (adverb and prepositions) and a section on proverbs, anecdotes and short stories to illustrate colloquial Spanish; IV, orthography. Miranda s grammar was influenced by Mario Alessandri D Urbino s Il paragone della lingua Toscana et Castigliana (1560) but expanded on it. The work contains 2 indexes to help readers and explanations, given in plain and easy terms, are contrasted on the same page to the Tuscan language so the learner can easily understand rules, variants and similarities of Spanish. Of great interest is the book 3, where the author discusses Spanish conversation on various cultural topics (customs, clothing, knowledge, etc.) through short didactic examples according to t

• Binding: Hardcover

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