Dante' De' la volgare' eloquenzia : Giovanni di Boccaccio da Certaldo, ne la vita di Dante'. Appresso gia vicino a la sua morte' compose un libretto in prosa latina, il quale elji intitulò. De vulgari eloquentia; e come che' per lo detto libretto apparisca lui havere in animo di distinguerlo, e di terminarlo in quattro libri, o che peduti siano lj' altri, piu non ne appariscono, che i dui primi

Alternate Title:

Volgare' eloquenzia

Contributor:

Janicolo, Tolommeo, active 1524-1548 (printer)

Name:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; Trissino, Giovanni Giorgio, 1478-1550

Date:

1529

Language:

English

Provenance:

Buonarroti, Lionardo (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy); Macauley, Francis Campbell (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Publisher:

Per Tolmeo Ianiculo da Bressa

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

52 unnumbered pages; 28 cm

Related Place:

Italy -- Vicenza.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.; Printer's device (Vacarro 547) on title page.; First edition of the De vulgari eloquentia. Cf. Pio Rajna, "La versione di Giovan Giorgio Trissino," in his critical ed. of the Latin text, 1896, p. xlix, lx.; The Latin original was first printed by Corbinelli at Paris in 1577.; Translated from the Latin by Gio. Giorgio Trissino. Cf. Melzi v. 1, p. 275.; Initial spaces with guide letters.; First edition of Dante's celebrated treatise De la volgari eloquenzia designed to establish the Italian language as a literary medium. The translation from Dante's Latin is by Giovan-Giorgio Trissino, poet and himself a linguistic and orthographic reformer.; Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁴.; The book is printed in the beautiful chancery types designed by Tolomeo Janiculo on the pattern of those cut by Lodovico degli Arrighi at Rome and used for the latter's editions of Trissino's works.; The book is printed with the Greek "ō" and "ē" for the open o and e, as affected by Trissino.; Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown leather with blind-stamped panel and border; gold-tooled title "Gramatica di Danti" in the center of the panel; all edges dark blue.; Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.; Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Bembo, Pietro. Prose di M. Pietro Bembo. In Vinegia : Per Giouan Tacuino, MDXXV [1525]; Culture Class Collection copy has ink drawing of a lady on front free endpaper.; Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription "Di Lionardo Buonarroti" on verso of front free endpaper.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio IC D2352 Ei529t

Collection:

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania); Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)