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NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory

Monday 29 September 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Dialetto napoletano - Galiani, Ferdinando

Of the Neapolitan dialect, 1779

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€ 250 - 400

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€ 645

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Information

Naples, Vincenzo Mazzola - Vocola, 1779. In 8°. Woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials, scattered foxing, contemporary half-leather and marbled paper binding, gilt title on the smooth spine with decorations, minor defects.

Specialist Notes

First and rare edition of the grammatical and historical treatise on the language written by the author of the famous Della Moneta. In this work, Abbot Galiani, an economist and Enlightenment thinker, seeks to demonstrate how the Neapolitan language was closer to the early Italian literary vernacular than the Tuscan linguistic area, and therefore hoped that Neapolitan would become the official language of the Southern Kingdom.

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