The amusing instructor, or, A key to the Italian classics
Subtitle: containing a select collection of remarkable sayings, and anecdotes, in Italian and English. Wherein the genuine pronunciation of the Italian is rendered obvious at sight, by means of proper characters. Also An ode on liberty, ascribed to Petrarch; and an elegant sonnet, hitherto unpublished, on the suppression of the celebrated Academy della Crusca. With an imitation of each in English verse, by a distinguished writer. The whole preceded by a copious and critical treatise on the pronunciation of the Italian tongue, by the editor, Antonio Montucci, LL. D., a native of Sienna, and a graduate of the University of that city
Contributors: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Publisher: Printer for the editor, No 2, Lyons Inn
Published: 1792
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Anecdotes; Early works to 1800; Italian language; Pronunciation
Other titles: Key to the Italian classics; Instruttor giocondo, ovvero, la chiave de' classici italiani; Chiave de' classici italiani
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