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Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561. In the 8th. Woodblock mark on the title page, small letters engraved in wood, text in italics, title page with patched edges, restoration of the lower margin of the first 5 cc., Slight blooms, light water gore at the lower edge of some files, small stain on the last pages, missing white paper & nbsp; * 8, coeval binding in full parchment, author and title in gold within a gusset on the spine, red cuts, small lack of the cap with restoration, slight defects. Modern bookplate on the guard card, signature of belonging to the title page.
Specialist Notes
Italian writer and grammarian of the sixteenth century, Alessandro Citolini (circa 1500-1582) took a clear position with respect to the discussion on the use of Latin or the vernacular in favor of the use of the latter, taking the side of Bembo. "In order to formulate and offer all the expedients to counteract the lability of memory, to remedy the shortcomings of the" never sure memory "basis and presupposition of the knowledge that" with very bitter effort is acquired ". The work [...] is divided into a seven-day dialogue, on the model of the creation of the world, completely consistent with the criterion he assumed in the organization and distribution of knowledge [...] this model allowed each to "another similar fabricarsene "and punctually followed the pattern already illustrated in the Places, enriching it with new specifications and above all completing it with a bundled catalog of names, objects, plants, stones, islands, rivers, cities, sciences, crafts and so on, in which the will of an encyclopedic classification of knowledge ended up taking shape in a sort of interminable lexical listing. This explains the definition of vocabulary [...] that has often been attributed to Tipocosmia, whose essential purpose, in the author's will, still remained that of offering a model of organic structuring of knowledge for mnemonic and rhetorical purposes. " (Treccani)