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TRISSINO, Giovanni Giorgio (1478-1550). Epistola del Trissino de le letter nuovamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana. [Rome: Lodovico degli Arrighi Vicentino and Lautizio Perugino, 1524. 4° (200 x 140mm). (Lightly spotted.) 19th-century cloth-backed boards.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the error vtilità on B3r and the last line of the book reading particulari, printed in Arrighi's exquisite 'first' italic type which was cut for him by Lautizio Perugino, the goldsmith praised by Cellini. The Epistola, addressed to Clement VII, was a proposal to introduce nine new letters into the alphabet to represent sounds in the Italian language for which there were no existing letters. Little remains of Trissino's work today except for the formalisation of 'u' as a vowel and 'v' as a consonant. Gamba 1703; Mortimer,Harvard Italian 506.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the error vtilità on B3r and the last line of the book reading particulari, printed in Arrighi's exquisite 'first' italic type which was cut for him by Lautizio Perugino, the goldsmith praised by Cellini. The Epistola, addressed to Clement VII, was a proposal to introduce nine new letters into the alphabet to represent sounds in the Italian language for which there were no existing letters. Little remains of Trissino's work today except for the formalisation of 'u' as a vowel and 'v' as a consonant. Gamba 1703; Mortimer,Harvard Italian 506.