William Thomas, Principal Rules of the Italian Grammar (1550)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1550
Author
William Thomas Note: 14/10/2005
Lexicon title
A Dictionarie, taken out of the two bookes in Italian, called Acharisius and Ricchezze della lingua volgare, for the better vnderstandyng of the notable Aucthours in that tongue
Book title
Principal Rvles of the Italian Grammer, with a Dictionarie for the better vnderstandyng of Boccace, Petrarcha, and Dante: gathered into this tongue by William Thomas
Publication place
London
Publisher
T. Berthelet
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Italian
Summary
Total English vocabulary as lemmatized: 5,246.
Language
headwords: Italian
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
360
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 21
number: 21
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 8653
sample: ABada, at a baye, in hoope, expectacion, or prolongeyng.
number: 8653
sample: ABada, at a baye, in hoope, expectacion, or prolongeyng.
Alston
XII.1
STC
24020
Catalog
Scott, Mary Augusta. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 345-47. view record
Other editions
1562: STC 24021 (Alston XII.2);
1567: STC 24022 (Alston XII.3)
1567: STC 24022 (Alston XII.3)
Facsimiles
Thomas, William. Principal Rules of the Italian Grammar, 1550. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 78. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Criticisms
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 379. view record
Tanke, G. Die italienischen Wörtbücher von den Anfängen bis zum Ersheinen des "Vocabulorio degli Accademici della Crusca" (1612). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1984. 68-72. view record
Adair, E. R. "William Thomas." Tudor Studies Presented by the Board of Studies in History in the University of London to Albert Frederick Pollard Being the Work of his Colleagues and Pupils. Ed. R. W. Seton-Watson. London: Longmans Green, 1924. 133-60. view record
Laven, P. J. "Life and Writings of William Thomas." M.A. dissertation. view record
Rossi, Sergio. "Un Italianista nel Cinquecento inglese: William Thomas." Aevum 40 (1966): 281-314. view record
Carlson, David R. "Mundus Muliebris: The World of Women Reviled and Defended ca. 195 B.C. and 1551 A.D. And Other Things ....." The Sixteenth Century Journal 24.3 (1993): 541-60. view record
Anglo, Sydney. "`Our Extremist Shift is to Work by Policy,' William Thomas and Early Tudor Machiavellianism." The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1984): 35-50. view record
Di Biase, Carmine G., ed. "Writing and Lying: William Thomas and the Politics of Translation." Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period. Amsterdam: Rodolpi, 2006. 91-102. view record
Tanke, G. Die italienischen Wörtbücher von den Anfängen bis zum Ersheinen des "Vocabulorio degli Accademici della Crusca" (1612). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1984. 68-72. view record
Adair, E. R. "William Thomas." Tudor Studies Presented by the Board of Studies in History in the University of London to Albert Frederick Pollard Being the Work of his Colleagues and Pupils. Ed. R. W. Seton-Watson. London: Longmans Green, 1924. 133-60. view record
Laven, P. J. "Life and Writings of William Thomas." M.A. dissertation. view record
Rossi, Sergio. "Un Italianista nel Cinquecento inglese: William Thomas." Aevum 40 (1966): 281-314. view record
Carlson, David R. "Mundus Muliebris: The World of Women Reviled and Defended ca. 195 B.C. and 1551 A.D. And Other Things ....." The Sixteenth Century Journal 24.3 (1993): 541-60. view record
Anglo, Sydney. "`Our Extremist Shift is to Work by Policy,' William Thomas and Early Tudor Machiavellianism." The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1984): 35-50. view record
Di Biase, Carmine G., ed. "Writing and Lying: William Thomas and the Politics of Translation." Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period. Amsterdam: Rodolpi, 2006. 91-102. view record
Sources
- O'Connor, Desmond. A History of Italian and English Dictionaries. Biblioteca dell' `archivium romanum' fondata da Giulio Bertoni, serie ii, linguistica, 46. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1990. 9-18. view record
- Alunno, Francesco. Le Ricchezze della lingua volgare . Vinegia: Aldo, 1543. view record
