The nurse
Subtitle: a poem
By: translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo by William Roscoe
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Printed for B. Dornin
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng; ita
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Infants; Care and hygiene; Poetry
Work titles: Balia
Notes: Translation of: La Balia.

Italian and English on opposite pages.

Frontispiece designed by F. Hayman and engraved by C. Grignion.

First edition: Liverpool : Printed by J. McCreery, for Cadell and Davies, London, 1798.

Signatures: pi² A⁴ B-D⁶ E⁸ F-N⁶. N₆ blank; B₃ and L₂ signed B₅ and K₂ respectively.

Half title page.

Include Roscoe's sketch of the life and works of Tansillo, and his notes, largely adapted from those in G.A. Ranza's Italian ediiton of 1767, an d including passages in Latin from the 12th book of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius.

Includes a poem: Inscription, p. [29]-34, last sequence.