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…
"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…
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…
"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…
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…
The original (1896) edition was self-published by the author; appears later to have sold the copyright to the IBC, and became a corporate officer of that publisher. De Gaudenzi's grammar was among the very first grammars composed in the Italian…
In this novel, the author appears as a character who like the novel itself unabashedly promotes his two grammars (like this copy, a facsimile copy of one of which is in the collection) as designed to help the working class, untutored Italian…
This second grammar by Bassetti followed hard on what he described in ads as the success of the first one. Designed especially for immigrant Italians, it contained worksheets and both correct spelling and phonetic spelling of English words to help…
Reflecting the widespread interest in learning Italian among Americans in this era, this work was published in the same year, 1832, as the Longfellow work in the collection. This is the "third edition, revised and corrected," by Carlo Alfieri, an…
Born Ignazio Batolo, Bachi (b. Palermo, 1787; d. Boston, 1853) received his law degree at the University of Padua, but fled the country in opposition to Bourbon rule in 1815. He became instructor of Italian at Harvard in 1826 (a year after Lorenzo Da…