Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca. Edizione seconda veneta accresciuta di molte voci Raccolte dagli Autori approvati dalla stessa Accademia

Features

Author:  Accademia della Crusca

Publisher:  Francesco Pitteri

Place of printing:  Venice

Year of publication:  1763

Product Condition:
A work in five volumes. Half leather binding with marbled corners and boards: gilt titles on the covers and gilt decorations on the spines. The bindings are in fair condition with serious abrasions to the edges and corners, spines, hinges, and muzzles; minor abrasions to the boards. Volume DI has a cut on the hinge of the front cover and losses to the upper muzzle. The leaves are generally well preserved with signs of aging; text in three columns; wide side and bottom margins. Of note in volume AC: title page in red and black; leaf with the indication of volume AC detached; portion of binding tape on the last blank page. Volume DI has blue stains in the lower outer corner of N (page 193). Volume LP has pencil writing in the side margin on E3 (page 69). Volume TZ has woodworm holes on the front pastedown and on the first leaves; pencil writing erased on the verso of the last flyleaf. Text in Italian.

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Pages:  XIX,(1),659,(1);672;548;574;250,314

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  25
Width:  18

Description

The five volumes are divided into: AC, DI, LP, QS, and TZ. Volume AC features a preface to the volumes and an introduction by the editor Francesco Pitteri. The title pages feature beautiful woodcuts depicting the sifter, a tool used to separate bran from flour, and the Academy's motto, "It picks the most beautiful flower." The figure of the sifter refers to the Academy's mission to sift and present the purest part of the Italian language. Volume TZ contains, with independent numbering: "The Index of Latin Words and Phrases", "The Index of Latin Proverbs and Phrases", the list of "Authors or Books by Authors of the Good Century (books by a certain author, books by an uncertain or unknown author, and books by various authors)", the list of "Modern Authors cited in default, or in confirmation of the Ancients, to demonstrate usage, or for some other occurrence", the "Table of Authors' Abbreviations from which the examples cited in the Vocabulary are taken", a "Warning" and a "Catalogue". The first Venetian edition dates back to 1612, the second to 1623. The third edition, in three volumes, was published in Florence in 1691. Ours is "the second Venetian edition augmented by many entries", as can be seen from the title pages. The Vocabolario immediately became a fundamental tool for the correct use of the Italian language, while also providing a model for all other European dictionaries.

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