1557 LA FABRICA DEL MONDO antique VELLUM concordance of Petrarch's vocabulary

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LA FABRICA DEL MONDO

 Nella quale si contengono le Voci di Dante, del Petrarca, del Boccaccio, & d'altribuoni Authori.

by M. Francesco Alunno da Farrara

Appresso Paolo Gherardo alla libraria dall'Aquila, In Vinegia; 1557


Original limp vellum, period manuscript writing to the front cover

Vellum worn, damage to the lower right corner

32 lvs., 237 lvs.

Frontispiece with woodcut portrait of Alunno (surrounded by an elaborate frame).

Text decorated with initials and vignettes

The work, dedicated to Cosimo de' Medici, contains ".. the voice of Dante, of Petrarca, of Boccaccio, & of other good authors..."


Four table leaves and the first numbered leaf are missing.

Size 8.5 by 12 inches

Text in Italian

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Alunno's important concordance of Petrarch's vocabulary

Francesco Alunno (or De Bailo, 1485-1556) was an Italian grammarian and writer of Ferrara. While working as a teacher of arithmetic and calligraphy in Udine and then in Venice, Alunno composed and published a series of impressive lexicographic works, culminating in his “La fabbrica del mondo” a comprehensive vocabulary of Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio and other Italian writers. “Le osservationi sopra il Petrarca”, first published in 1539, is Alunno’s first work. A vast glossary of Petrarchan words in alphabetical order, ‘Le osservationi’ provides definitions for each word or difficult expression, a quotation from Petrarch showing its use in context, advice on when to use different spellings, and page reference numbers to the printed edition of Petrarch’s works published by Gherardo the same year. This second edition was considerably enriched with more entries and corrected in many places by the author. Also added are a few of letters attesting to Alunno’s relations with Venetian writers and printers (e.g. Girolamo Ruscelli), as well as an entertaining fictitious epistolary exchange between Petrarch and the author, with Petrarch’s letter at the beginning and Alunno’s response at the end of the work.
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