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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Benedetto Varchi's l' Ercolano
    sub title: a focused and annotated translation
  name:
    name part: Ward, Michael S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 246 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This is the first translation into any language of one of the most significant treatises of past centuries, Benedetto Varchi’s L’Ercolano (1570). It is designed for anyone curious about what ideas on language were popular in the past. As is true today, people in the sixteenth century had very definite opinions on this unique human characteristic. Varchi’s work, in the form of a lively dialogue, explores such questions as whether we are the only species possessing the ability to communicate; what the oldest variety of speech may have been and how best to learn a foreign tongue. Another topic important at that time was how to deal with the decline of Latin as a universal language among the educated, and the search for the most suitable Italian dialect to replace it. This brief volume sparkles with the author’s wit and makes for quite informative and highly entertaining reading.
  note: by Michael S. Ward.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-235) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Varchi, Benedetto
      name part: 1503-1565
  subject:
    topic: Italian language
  classification: PC1073 .W37 2025
  classification: 450
  identifier: 1036448290
  identifier: 9781036448295
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250514
    record change date: 20260218211406.0
    record identifier: in00005678370