Origine della lingua Fiorentina, altrimenti Il Gello di M. Pier Francesco Giambullari Accademico Fiorentino.

8° (164x104 mm). Collation: A-L⁸, *⁸. 176, [16] pages. Roman and italic type. Animated woodcut initials. Limp vellum, traces of ties (probably recased). Restored the lower portion of the spine. A very good copy, a few spots in the title-page, some finger-marks. Numerous marginalia in brown ink, partly trimmed.

Provenance: Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (1651-1737; small stamp on the title-page ‘Ex. Bibl. Ios. Ren. Card. Imperialis'); ‘Ex Libris Raphael D'Andrea' (stamp in red ink on the title-page); Livio Ambrogio collection.

A fine copy, once belonged to the cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, who assembled an extensive private library. In the work, dedicated to the duke Cosimo de' Medici, the Florentine academician Pierfrancesco Giambullari (1495-1555) defends the Commedia and validates the contemporary Florentine language against Bembo and his followers. In Giambullari's opinion the Florentine language derived from the Aramaic (by way of Etruscan), and not from Latin.