The Italian master: or, the easiest and best method for attaining that language

To the Reverend Doctor Harris, His Majesty’s professor of modern languages in the University of Cambridge

The author’s preface to the reader

ERRATA

An introduction to the Italian tongue, for the use of those that do not understand Latin p. 1

The Italian master. Part I. 1 p. 18

Of the Italian pronunciation p. 18

Of the pronunciation of the vowels p. 19

Of the pronunciation of the consonants p. 20

A collection of words and syllables, the most difficult to be pronounc’d p. 22

A recapitulation of the Italian pronunciation p. 23

Chapter I. Of the articles in general p. 24

Of the definite article p. 25

Of the indefinite article p. 28

Remarks on the articles p. 29

Chap. II. Of the nouns p. 31

Of nouns ending in a p. 32

Of nouns ending in e p. 32

Of the nouns in i p. 33

Of the nouns in o p. 34

Of nouns in u p. 36

Of the augmentatives p. 36

Of the diminutives p. 37

Of adjectives p. 38

Of the comparatives p. 38

Of the superlatives p. 40

Of numeral nouns p. 41

Ordinal nouns p. 41

A rule (for those who understand French) to learn a great many Italian words in a short time p. 41

Chap. III. Of the pronouns p. 43

Of pronouns personal p. 43

Of pronouns conjunctive p. 46

Of the pronouns possessive p. 48

Of the pronouns demonstrative p. 49

Of the pronouns interrogative p. 51

Of the pronouns relative p. 51

Of the improper pronouns p. 52

Chap. IV. Of the verbs p. 53

Important remarks on the conjugations p. 53

The conjugation of the auxiliary verb havere, to have p. 54

The conjugation of the auxiliary verb essere, to be p. 58

Of the conjugations p. 61

An easie method of learning to conjugate the verbs p. 61

The first conjugation of the verbs in are p. 62

Remarks on the verbs in are p. 65

Of the verbs passive p. 66

The conjugation of the verbs passive p. 66

The second conjugation of the verbs in ere p. 68

The third conjugation of the verbs in ire p. 72

Of the irregular verbs in are p. 75

Of the irregular verbs in ere p. 81

The conjugation of the irregular verbs in ere, long p. 82

Of the verbs in ere, short p. 97

A new and general rule to learn in a moment the irregular verbs in ere, short p. 97

Terminations of the verbs in ere, short p. 98

Irregular of the third conjugation p. 106

Of verbs neuters p. 111

Of reciprocal verbs p. 112

Of impersonal verbs p.112

Chap. V. Of the participles p. 118

Chap. VI. Of the adverbs p. 120

Chap. VII. Of the prepositions p. 124

Chap. VIII. Of the conjugations p. 126

Chap. IX. Of the interjections p. 127

The Italian master. Part II p. 128

The second part contains seven treatises from the best authors, and particularly from those who have written on the purity of the Italian language p. 128

The first treatise I Of the Italian orthography p. 129

The second treatise II Of the Italian accent p. 134

The third treatise III Of the Italian concord. p. 138

The fourth treatise IV Remarks on some verbs and prepositions p. 155

The fifth treatise V Of the composition and the rules to write and speak Italian well p. 179

The sixth treatise VI Of the poetical licences, and of the different synonima’s of the names of the Gods p. 188

The seventh treatise VII Of improper and obsolete words p. 196

The Italian master. Part III p. 200

Vocabolary p. 201

A collection of verbs most necessary to be first learn’d p. 222

Familiar dialogues p. 228

A collection of Italian phrases, or, manners of speaking, in which the delicacy of that language consists p. 250

A collection of jests, several diverting stories, sentences, and the choicest Italian proverbs p. 259

Epiteti delle città più principali d’Italia p. 272

Nomi delle Academie d’Italia p. 272

A collection of the choicest Italian proverbs p. 273

A collection of the finest expressions in the most famous Italian poets p. 278

A collection of inscriptions of Italian letters p. 288

The Italian and English dictionary

The English and Italian dictionary

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