Pergamini’s influential work on the Italian language, revised and enlarged, 1651

Giacomo Pergamini: Trattato della lingua Del Signor Giacomo Pergamini Fossombrone. Nel quale con una piena, e distinta Instruttione si dichiarano tutte le Regole, & i Fondamenti della Favella Italiana. In quest' ultima Impressione corretto, & ampliato. Title-page with small illustrated printer's woodcut device, as well as several woodcut headpieces and initial capitals. Venice: Apresso i Giunti, e Gio. Giacomo Hertz, 1651.

8vo (15,2:10 cm). [16] 302 [2] pages. Woodcut and letterpress, bound in contemporary flexible vellum with hand-written title on spine and numbering on spine label. Revised and enlarged edition of this early Italian grammar by pioneer lexicographer and grammarian Giacomo Pergamini (1531-1615).

Content, Author: An influential work on the Italian language by the author of the first Italian dictionary »Il Memoriale della lingua Italiana« (1602). Pergamini's Italian grammar was a huge publishing success and appeared in numerous posthumous editions until 1737; present is the fifth, revised and enlarged edition.

Rarity: Although present in institutional holdings, present 1651 edition printed by Giunti and Hertz in Venice was and is hard to find in trade. RBH quotes only one record at auction.

Condition: Pagination error „217“ reads „21“, otherwise well preserved copy.

Reference: Libreria Vinciana. Autori italiani del ‘600, 3838; "Pergamini, Giacomo". In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 82 (2015). Consulte online on 07 February 2023 <https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-pergamini_(Dizionario-Biografico)>