The work is an ambitious project to record all the entries of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and other fine authors, through which, as Alunno himself states in his work, "one can express in writing all the concepts of man and any created thing." The work is considered the first methodical vocabulary of the Italian language . Divided into ten sections—God, Heaven, World, Elements, Soul, Body, Man, Quality, Quantity, Hell, and the Author—it relies on the authority of the sources and its own judgment to attempt to catalogue all the entries capable of illustrating all human knowledge. At the end of the volume, with its own title page, is the famous Vocabulary of the noted scholar and historian Tommaso Porcacchi, born in Castiglion Fiorentino (AR) in 1530 and died in Venice in 1585. Porcacchi was the author of poetic, historical, and geographical works and edited for Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari the publication of a series of Greek authors, some of which he himself translated into vernacular.
Edit16, A, n. 1319; Graesse, I, p. 88; Index Aur., I, p. 427; Morant.