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  • Tags: Alfonso Arbib-Costa

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This is a copy of the Third Edition of this work, 1924, first published, in 1912. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York, wrote texts designed to help…

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"New & Revised edition. " This "new and revised edition [was] printed from new plates." (From "new plates" is the very definition of a new edition.) This work is designed for the native English speaker eager to learn Italian.While no date other…

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Fifth Edition. It seems likely that this Fifth, and the Seventh Edition, q.v., date from sometime in the 1920s, but there is no evidence in the book or otherwise to pin this down.Here, as with Pecorini's Grammatica enciclopedia, I adhere to G. Thomas…

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"Seventh Edition."It would not be until an Eighth edition in 1933, q.v. - 24 years after the original 1909 publication -  that the reader would be reminded that despite the 1914 date that appears in every edition (the Fifth and Seventh before the…

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Eighth Edition. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York, wrote texts designed to help students of English and Italian. This work would appear to be designed…

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Published as a result of the organizing committee of the 1906 Milan Exposition directing Italian Chambers of Commerce around the world to prepare a volume in a series about “gli Italiani all’estero” (Italians abroad), this Italian-language work was…
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