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DANTE ALIGHIERI. De la Volgare Eloquenzia. Printer's large woodcut device on title. [26] leaves. Printed in italic type designed by Ludovico degli Arrighi using Greek letters to differentiate open and closed vowels. 4to, 242x160 mm, 19th-century 1/2 sheep, worn, top half of backstrip missing; title soiled with old inscription, abraded stamp on title and elsewhere in text, bookplate removed. (Vicenza: Tolomeo Janiculo, January 1529)
first edition in italian of Dante's unfinished linguistic treatise advocating the literary use of the Italian vernacular. The original version in Latin was first published in 1577. Gamba 1709.
