1586 Lorenzo Valla Elegantiarum linguae Latine ANTIQUE Johann Gryphius Press

(Gryphius, Johann)

Elegantiarum linguae Latine libri sex

by Valla, Lorenzo


Venice : Apud Ioannem Gryphium; 1586

735, [31] pp. A-Z8, AA-ZZ8, AAA-BBB8.


Italic type. 

(8vo) 16x10 cm (6¼x4"),

Original vellum, restored, manuscript title at the spine.



With bookplate: "Dai libri di Elsa de Giorgi".

A work of linguistics by Valla, the Italian humanist scholar, rhetorician, educator, and Catholic priest.

Featuring a collection of passages taken from writers like Virgil, Cicero, and Livy, from which Valla establishes linguistic and stylistic canons of the Latin language.

Some soiling and wear to vellum; period ownership inscription, minor occasional staining; very good.

Text in Latin
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