Histoire de La Littérature D'Italie, Tirée De L'italien De Mr. Tiraboschi, et Abrégée Par Antoine Landi.
by TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO
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Berne, 1784. 5 volumes, uncut, in original printed wrappers. Good copies. pp. viii, 373 [374 blank]; 365 [366 blank]; 428; 536; 351 [352 blank], including half-title in each volume. (some discreet library stamps throughout).
Tiraboschi (1731 - 1794) produced 13 volumes of his Storia della letterature italiana, covering the origin and development of literature and the sciences from Etruscan times to 1700; an erudite and learned scholar, he was a bit long-winded, and Landi"s abridgment has much to recommend it. See Bohn's Guinea Catalogue note to # 6452 "The Storia della Letteratura Italiana of the immortal Tiraboschi cannot fail to be admitted into every judicious library, however vast or confined. Italy boasts of few literary characters of a higher class, or of a more widely-diffused reputation than Tiraboschi. His diligence, his sagacity, his candour, his constant and patriotic exertions to do justice to the reputation of his countrymen, and to rescue departed worth from ill-merited oblivion, assign to him an exalted situation; a situation with the Poggios and Politians of former times, in the everlasting temple of Fame" (Dibdin) And: "In one country of Europe, and only in one, we find a national history so comprehensive as to leave uncommemorated no part of its literary labour. This was first executed by Tiraboschi, a Jesuit born at Bergamo, and in his later years, librarian of the Duke of Modena. It descends to the close of the seventeenth century. In full and clear exposition, in minute and exact investigation of facts, Tiraboschi has few superiors; and such is his good sense in criticism, that we must regret the sparing use he has made of it." (Hallam).
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- Title
- Histoire de La Littérature D'Italie, Tirée De L'italien De Mr. Tiraboschi, et Abrégée Par Antoine Landi.
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- TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO
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- Berne
- Date Published
- 1784
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