Vernacular Grammars in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Iparcaand Rinaldo Corso’s ‘Fondamenti del parlar Toscano’ (1549), in:“Letteratura Italiana Antica”, 6, 2005, pp. 391-431). The workwas reprinted in 1550 and in 1564 and includes in Sansovino’santhology Ossservazioni sulla lingua volgare (1562).Rinaldo Corso was born in Verona on February 16,1525. His father was Ercole Macone (the family was originallyfrom Corsica, hence ‘Corso’), leader of the Venetian Republicand his mother was Margherita Merli. After her husband’sdeath Margherita moved to Correggio where Rinaldo waseducated by Bartolomeo Zanotti. Later in Bologna he studiedlaw with the famous Andrea Alciati. He took his degree in lawwhen he was only 21. In 1542 he published a first commentaryon the Rime of Vittoria Colonna, a second part appeared a yearlater (the whole commentary was reprinted in Colonna’s collectedpoems edited by Girolamo Ruscelli in 1558).In 1546 he returned to Correggio, participated in theacademy founded by Veronica Gambara (cf. A. Brundin, VittoriaColonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation,Aldershot, 2008, pp. 158-168), and began the composition ofthe present work. In 1549 he married Lucrezia Lombardi, mentionedby Ortensio Lando in his catalogue of illustrious Italianwomen (in Forcianae quaestiones, 1535). She probably is the Hiparchato which the present work is dedicated.After Veronica Gambara’s death, Corso founded anaccademy by himself, the Accademia dei Filogariti. In 1554 hewas named first Judge and Prior of the Board of Notaries inCorreggio. From 1554 to 1557 he lived first in Venice and thenin Urbino. Back in Correggio in 1557, he was accused of sidingwith the Pope in the war between France and Spain. Afterthe destruction of his properties, Rinaldo left Correggio andmoved to Naples, started work for cardinal Girolamo da Coreggio, and followed him to Rome. After the mysteriousmurder of his wife in 1567 he became a priest, first Nuncio in Policastro and then Inquisitor in Malta andCyprus. On August 7, 1579 he became Bishop of Strongoli. He died in 1582 at the age of 57. He published manyworks such as Delle private rappacificazioni (1555), Il dialogo sul ballo (1555), Gli onori della casa di Correggio (1566), andVita di Giberto terzo di Correggio detto il Difensore, colla vita diVeronica Gambara (1566) (cf. R. Finzi, Un correggese del Rinascimento:Rinaldo Corso, 1525-1582, Modena, 1959, passim;and A. Nesi, Rinaldo Corso, in: “Corpus représentatif desgrammaires et des traditions linguistiques”, B. Colombat& E. Lazcano, eds. Paris, 1998, I, pp. 334-5).Edit 16, CNCE13559; Adams, C-2699; Gamba, 1337; C.Trabalza, Storia della grammatica italiana, Milan, 1908, pp.125-127; C. Vitali, Grammatiche stampate nei secoli XV e XVIe loro più preziose edizioni, Sassari, 1976, no. 83; A. Piovesan,Rinaldo Corso e i “Fondamenti del parlar thoscano”, Diss., Padua,1960; H. Sanson, Donne, precettistica e lingua nell’Italiadel Cinquecento: un contributo alla storia del pensiero linguistico,Florence, 2007, p. 202. € 900,00the first major historical, artistic, and geographical guideof Italy in vernacular27) ALBERTI, Leandro (1479-1552). Descrittione ditutta Italia..., nella quale si contiene il sito di essa, l’origine,& le signorie delle città, & delle castella, co i nomi antichie moderni,... Et piu gli huomini famosi che l’hannoillustrata, i monti, i laghi, i fiumi,... Bologna, AnselmoGiaccarelli, January 1550.Folio; 18 th century vellum over boards, gilt title on spine,marbled edges (in mint condition); (4), I-VII, 9-469, (28) ll.The blank leaves A8 and IIII6 are missing. Alberti’s engravedportrait facing the first page of text. Printer’s deviceon the title-page. Poems by Giovanni Philoteo Achil-- 30 -
lini, Andrea Alciati, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Sebastiano Corradi and many others can be read at title-page’s versoand on the preliminary leaves. Title and first pages slightly browned in the inner margin, l. 219 with an old repairwithout loss, waterstain at the beginning and in the middle of the volume, inner margin of the last leaf reinforced, alittle hole repaired in the same leaf with the loss of a few letters, altogether a very good, genuine, well bound copy.FIRST EDITION, dedicated to Henry II of France and Caterina de’ Medici (Bologna, January 19, 1550), of thisimportant historical, artistic and geographical guide of Italy, which in spite of its huge size became a true bestsller,read and looked up until the late 18 th century by many foreign travellers intending to face the Grand Tour.After the first Bologna edition, in which the author apologizes because he could not print the alreadypromised addition on the Italian islands (Isole pertinenti ad essa), in order not to delay further on the publicationof the book, by then several times postponed, the work went through 10 editions, almost all Venetian, to which twoCologne editions in the Latin translation of G. Kryander Hoeninger are to be added.The manuscript describing the Italian islands, kept in the Bolognese convent of San Domenico, was obtainedby Ludovico degli Avanzi, who printed it for the first time as an appendix of the Descrittione in 1561. The1568 edition is also worth mentioning because the Isole are accompanied by seven engraved maps.Alberti’s work is somewhat a summa of the historical-antiquarian knowledge of the 15 th and 16 th century,modelled along the lines of the earliest and most influential example of this literary genre, i.e. Flavio Biondo’s Italiaillustrata, but at the same time it is also the product of the author’s direct experience acquired through his manytravels across the peninsula.He not only exploited Biondo’s work, but consulted also his remarkable library and requested informationfrom all major Italian scholars of the time who in turn answered enthusiastically; among his correspondents standout the names of Paolo Giovio and Andrea Alciati. Therefore Alberti was not a simple compiler, but he was able tosift his sources and emend the ancients, whereas they were susceptible to be corrected by the contemporaries or bya direct observation.Leandro Alberti, born in Bologna, entered the Dominican order in 1493 in the convent of San GiacomoApostolo at Forlì. Two years later he attended philosophy and theology in the convent of San Domenico at Bolognaunder the guidance of G. Garzoni and S. Mazzolini da Prierio.Around 1505 he devoted himself to preaching, traveling all across Italy. For a period, toward 1515, he wasamong the suite of cardinal Tommaso de Vio (Caietanus), Grand Master of the Domincan Order. Back to Bolognain 1516, he wrote the De viris illustribus Ordinis Praedicatorum, printed the following year.He was then appointed Provincial of Holy Land and in 1525 he left Rome with the new Grand Master of the Order,Francesco Silvestri da Ferrara, with whom in the following three years he visited southern Italy and Sicily. The suddendeath of Silvestri in 1528 cuts short the journey and Alberti went back to Rome, where he probably conceivedand started writing the work who gave him fame.In the following years he lived in Bologna, where on the occasion of the third centenary of the translationof Saint Dominic’s body he commissioned two works of art for the Saint’s Arca and wrote a pamphlet onhis death. In 1536 he became Vicar of the Convent of SantaSabina in Rome and later Inquisitor. In 1541-42 the first partof his Historie di Bologna was published, while the other partsappeared only after his death. Alberti died in Bologna in 1552(cf. G. Petrella, L’officina del geografo: la “Descrittione di tuttaItalia” di Leandro Alberti e gli studi geografico-antiquari tra Quattroe Cinquecento, Milano, 2004, passim).A. Pescarzoli, I libri di viaggio e le guide della raccolta Luigi VittorioFossati Bellani, Roma, 1957, I, no. 284; H. Harrisse, Bibliothecaamericana vetustissima, New York, 1866 (i.e. Leipzig,1921), p. 450, no. 302; Edit 16, CNCE685. € 3.800,00the critical debate over Speroni’s Canace28) CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo (1503-1562) - SPERO-NE, Speroni (1500-1588). Giuditio sopra la Tragedia diCanace et Macareo con molte utili considerationi circa l’arteTragica, et di altri poemi con la Tragedia appresso. Lucca,Vincenzo Busdraghi, May 4, 1550.8vo. 95 leaves (lacks the last blank). With the printer’s deviceon the title-page and at the end. Old vellum over boards, avery fine copy.FIRST EDITION of Giuditio sopra la Tragedia, which had alsobeen attributed to Giovanni Battista Giraldi (cf. S. Speroni,Canace e scritti in sua difesa, C. Roaf, ed., Bologna, 1982, pp.XXIV-XXIX). Included is also the text of Speroni’s Canace,which had already been printed by Valgrisi in Venice in 1546.“The opening attack in the new battle over Speroni’sCanace is thus in many ways a remarkable critical doc-- 31 -
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