Containing such grounds as are most immediately useful and necessary for the speedy and easie attaining of the same. As also a new store-house of proper and choice dialogues, most useful for such as desire the speaking part, and intend to travel into Italy, or the Levant. Together with the modern way of addressing letters, and stiling of persons, as well in actual discourse, as in writing. With alterations and additions
Autore:
Giovanni Torriano | Torriano Giovanni
Luogo:
London | Londra
Editore:
J. Martyn | J. Martyn
Anno: 1673
Tipo: Grammatica
By Gio. Torriano, an Italian, and professor of the Italian tongue, &c. in London, London, printed by T. R[oyvroft?] for J. Martyn, and are to be sold at the sign of the bell in St Pauls Church-Yard, 1673.
Metalingua:
Inglese
Lingua oggetto:
Italiano
Sistema di scrittura:
Latino
The preface to the reader
An advertisment
A brief introduction to the Italian tongue p. 1
[Sulla pronuncia] pp. 1-6
Observations [sull’elisione e l’accento] pp. 6-10
The definite artiche p. 11
The terminations of nouns substantives and adjectives which are our declensions p. 14
Of the degrees of comparison p. 22
The pronouns p. 25
The reciprocal pronoun p. 26
Pronouns possessive p. 27
Pronouns demonstrative p. 30
Pronouns relative p. 34
Pronouns indefinit p. 36
Pronouns conjunctive or particles so called p. 41
Of verbs p. 42
The scheam of the auxiliar verbs, havére and essere, may be as followeth p. 44
The scheam of regular verbs p. 48
Observations about the use of the tenses p. 54
The manners of forming verbs, useful for grammarians p. 57
Of the verb passive p. 88
Verbs neuters conjugated by the auxiliar verb havere, to have p. 89
Verbs neuters conjugated by the verb essere, to be p. 89
The verb reciprocal how conjugated p. 90
The contract participles of the first conjugation, which are most frequent both in writing and discourse p. 93
Of adverbs of affirming p. 94
Of augmenting p. 95
Of calling p. 96
Of comparing p. 96
Of chusing p. 96
Of demonstrating p. 96
Of denying p. 96
Of doubting p. 97
Of exhorting p. 97
Of excepting p. 98
Of forbidding p. 98
Of interrogation p. 98
Of lessening p. 99
Of number p. 99
Of order or sequence p. 100
Of place p. 101
Of posture p. 102
Of quality p. 103
Of quantity p. 104
Of similitude p. 105
Of separation p. 105
Of professing and swaring p. 106
Of time p. 106
Of wishing p. 109
Of imprecation p. 109
Conjunctions (of addition, comparing, ecc.) p. 110
Prepositions p. 114
Prepositions [prefissi] p. 116
Interjections p. 117
An appendix to the introduction: or, a summary of miscellany observations p. 119
An appendix of some few choice Italian proverbs, with the English to them p. 147