ALUNNO, Francesco (c.1485-1556). Le richezze della lingua volgare. Venice: Aldine Press, 1543. 2° (287 x 200mm). Woodcut device on title and on last page. (Title very lightly stained and with two library stamps and three ownership inscriptions, two deleted.) 19th-century green roan-backed boards (title rather faded). Provenance: Giulio Bresciatini (17th-century signature on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). FIRST EDITION of Alunno's work in which he listed, in alphabetical order, all the most elegant words and expressions used by Boccaccio. Adams A-842 (one imperfect copy); Renouard 127/2: 'fut en grand estime, et eut un grand nombre de lecteurs'.
ALUNNO, Francesco (c.1485-1556). Le richezze della lingua volgare. Venice: Aldine Press, 1543. 2° (287 x 200mm). Woodcut device on title and on last page. (Title very lightly stained and with two library stamps and three ownership inscriptions, two deleted.) 19th-century green roan-backed boards (title rather faded). Provenance: Giulio Bresciatini (17th-century signature on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). FIRST EDITION of Alunno's work in which he listed, in alphabetical order, all the most elegant words and expressions used by Boccaccio. Adams A-842 (one imperfect copy); Renouard 127/2: 'fut en grand estime, et eut un grand nombre de lecteurs'.

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ALUNNO, Francesco (c.1485-1556). Le richezze della lingua volgare. Venice: Aldine Press, 1543. 2° (287 x 200mm). Woodcut device on title and on last page. (Title very lightly stained and with two library stamps and three ownership inscriptions, two deleted.) 19th-century green roan-backed boards (title rather faded). Provenance: Giulio Bresciatini (17th-century signature on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). FIRST EDITION of Alunno's work in which he listed, in alphabetical order, all the most elegant words and expressions used by Boccaccio. Adams A-842 (one imperfect copy); Renouard 127/2: 'fut en grand estime, et eut un grand nombre de lecteurs'.

ALUNNO, F. Della fabrica del mondo ... nella quale si contengono le voci di Dante, del Petrarca, del Boccaccio, & d'altri buoni autori. Venice: Francesco Rampazzetto, 1562. 2° (295 x 204mm.) Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. (Title a trifle soiled and with two library stamps.) Binding very similar to the above (a few marks). Provenance: Domus Prob. Prov. Veneto Med. Bibliotheca (stamp on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). Probably the fourth edition of Alunno's Fabrica in which he lists all the words used in medieval Italian in category order.