Rudiments of the Italian language

Preface p. VII

Contents p. XI

I. Of pronunciation p. 1

II. Of nouns and articles p. 5

III. Of adjectives p. 13

IV. Of pronouns p. 15

V. Observations on the formation of a great many Italian words from the English and other languages, with an account of the Italian numbers, or their method of reckoning p. 19

VI. Of regular verbs, and the two irregular auxiliary verbs p. 24

VII. Of irregular verbs p. 35

VIII. Of impersonal verbs and participles, with observations on the uses of the tenses p. 59

IX Of adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and intejections p. 67

X. Of poetical licences, with some directions for prosecuting the study of Italian p. 75

The following pieces are in Italian, and constitute the collection, viz.

Familiar dialogues p. 84

Stories and fables p. 101

Extract from Davila’s History of the civil wars in France p. 118

–––––– from Cardinal Bentivoglio’s History of the wars in Flanders p. 131

Letters of Cardinal Bentivoglio p. 145

––––– of Vincenzio Martinelli p. 154

Extracts from Metastasio’s Adrian p. 162

–––––– from Tasso’s Aminta p. 173

–––––– from Guarini’s Pastor fido p. 180

–––––– from the two first Cantos of Tasso’s Jerusaleme delivered p. 185