Giovanni Torriano, The Italian Tutor (1640)

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Date
1640
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
A short Table, containing the most vsuall and hard words in the Italian Tongue, being altogether, or almost meerly Italian, underivable from any other Language, especially the Latin: singularly usefull and necessary for those that understand the Latin: for possessing their memory with those words, they may understand almost all words in Italian
Book title
The Italian Tvtor or a New and Most Compleat Italian Grammer. Containg above others a most compendious way to learne the Verbs, and rules of Syntax. To which is annexed a display of monasillable particles of the Language, by way of Alphabet
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Paine
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Italian
Summary
(a) "A short Table" [(*)r-(***)4v]; (b) "Of Adverbes" (Italian headword and English translation; pp. 57-80); (c) "The monosillable Particles of the Italian tongue" (separate but attached book; b1r-e4v)
Language
headwords: Italian
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
(*)r-(***)4v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) A, to, vnto, to the. Look in our Particles.
Abbagliare, to blinde, to dazle, to dimme.
(b) Acanto, by or adjoyning unto
(c) Ad. To, or By. For tis even as a, only for better sound sake the d is affixt. Vno ad uno, one by one, or one to one: ad before a word beginning with a vowell.
Alston
XII.20-21
STC
24137-37.5
Catalog
Scott, Mary Augusta. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 356. view record
Other editions
1673: Wing T1921 ("The Italian reviv'd"; Alston XII.22-23);
1689: Wing T1922 (Alston XII.24)
Criticisms
Bately, Janet. "Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts." Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Eds. Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester. Costerus 133. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. 13-30. view record