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Vocabulary of the Academicians of the Crusca, 1741

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In Venice, by Lorenzo Baseggio, 1741. 5 volumes. In 4vo. Title in the title page, printer's device on the title page, woodcut initials, woodcut decorations, and text in two columns. Slight foxing. Contemporary full parchment binding, gilt title on the spines impressed within a tag. Minor defects.

Specialist Notes

The Vocabolario della Crusca is considered one of the most influential texts in the history of the Italian language. It was created with the aim of giving a unified identity to the language of culture in an Italy lacking a capital and a court of reference. For this reason, the Academicians decided to adopt fourteenth-century Florentine as their model, which had become considered authoritative thanks to the prestige of the era's writers. The work was not limited to the "Three Crowns" (Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio), but extended to all fourteenth-century Florentine authors. The work's influence on the formation of literary Italian was enormous: most of the words recorded then are still in use today and fully comprehensible, a rare case when compared with similar vocabularies from other countries.

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