BEMBO,Pietro (1470-1547). Prose
[Venice], 1539. Small 8vo (152 x 104 mm), 115 ff. Italic type. Later stiff parchment, manuscript title on spine, speckled edges. Condition: marginal staining in quire C. Third edition, reprinting Marcolini's 1538 "Edition seconda" (still so designated in Bembo's dedication to Giulio de'Medici), of Bembo's defense of the Italian vernacular as a literary language. First published in 1525, this seminal and initially controversial work laid the foundations of Italian grammar. Additional lots in this auction
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Important Books / The Civil War
7:00 AM PT - Apr 5th, 2008
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Bloomsbury Auctions
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New York, NY 10036-1902
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