Item #43257 Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca. Accademica della Crusca.
Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca

Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca

Venetia: Presso Iacopo Turrini, 1680. In quest' ultima edizione, folio, pp. [24], 940, [114]; †6 ††8 A-4H6 4I8 a-g6 h-i8; text primarily in double column, engraved printer's mark, vignette titles, engraved head-pieces and initials throughout, title page "Vocabolario" typeface printed from woodcuts; full contemporary calf, 19th-century spine and tips, black gilt morocco spine label; boards and edges rubbed and worn; leaf [i8] (blank) supplied; textblock fine. 19th-century bookplates of James Barratt of Lymm Hall and Charles J. Bewlay of Carleton Hall mounted to front pastedown. The Accademia della Crusca, founded in 1582, was by far the most famous of the Italian Academies, and had as its principle object the purification of the Italian language. The Vocabolario, its greatest work, was first published in Venice in 1612. Vancil, p. 2. Item #43257

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