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Thursday 25 June 2026, 03:00 PM • Rome

120 Linguistica

Pergamini, Giacomo

Treatise on the Language [...], in which with a full and distinct Instruction all the Rules and the foundations of the Italian Language are declared., 1613

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Venice, for Bernardo Giunta, Cio. Battista Ciotti & Compagni, 1613. In 8vo. Vignette on the title page, woodcut initial, some light browning, bound in half parchment and marbled paper, titles within tags on the spine.

Specialist Notes

A rare first edition of this treatise by Giacomo Pergamini (1531-1615). A clergyman, humanist, and lexicographer, he is famous for his Memoriale della lingua italiana (Venice, 1602), considered the first modern European dictionary with true lexical definitions and conceived for practical and educational purposes. A forerunner of Italian lexicography, he devoted his life to the study of the vernacular, anticipating solutions that would be adopted by the later Vocabolario della Crusca.

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