Di Dante della Volgare eloquenza libri due. Tradotti in lingua italiana. (with:) Gian Giorgio Trissino, Il Castellano, dialogo; Claudio Tolomei, Il Cesano, dialogo; Benedetto Varchi, Quesito; Opinioni di M. Girolamo Mutio. Del Cavalier Lionardo Salviati. Del Doni. Di M. Ludovico Dolce. Del Cettadini. Del Subasiano.

Five parts in one volume, 4° (256×150 mm). Collation: *⁴, ¶⁴, A⁴, B¹⁰; C⁶, D¹⁰; 2[chi]², E⁸, F-G⁸; 3[chi]², H⁸, I⁴; 4[chi]², K⁴, L-M⁴, N⁸, O⁴, a⁶. [2], 2, 39, [5], 41-67, [3], 69-116, [2], 117-140, [2], 141-186, [10] pp. Lacking the blank leaves 2[chi]2, 3[chi]2, 4[chi]2, O4 and a6. In this copy the first quire [chi]⁸ with the general title and the index was never bound in. Every section opens with a half-title. Contemporary vellum, inked title on the spine. Minor wear to the upper cover. A good and genuine copy, some foxing and browning, book block partly detached from the spine.

Provenance:Andrea Loyola da Messina (ownership inscription on the front flyleaf); Bruno Lizio Letterio (ownership inscription on the front flyleaf, dated 22 February 1716); Livio Ambrogiocollection.

Reprint of Trissino's Italian version of the De vulgari eloquentia, which was included, together with other sixteenth-century treatises on the dispute over the Italian language (by such authors as Tolomei, Varchi, Salviati, etc.), edited by the scholar Giuseppe degli Aromatari (1587-1660).