A grammer or introduction to the Italian tongue

To the honovrable fovndation of Marie Magdalen Colledge in Oxford

To the reader

Sur l’autheur

A briefe table of the pronunciation. Cap. 1 p. 1

Rules more particular for the reading. Cap. 2 p. 1

Of apostrophus called by Lud:Dolce.jl.Riuolto. Cap. 3 p. 2

Of dipthongues. Cap. 4 p. 3

Of consonants. Cap. 5 p. 4

Of words and of their accidents. Cap. 6 p. 6

Of the accent p. 6

Of the articles p. 9

Of the nowne. Cap. 8 p. 10

A nowne of the first declension is thus declined p. 10

The 2. declension p. 11

The 3. declension p. 11

These nownes following make their plural in i e or a p. 12

These others make their plural all in i, or in, ora p. 12

Anomalaes of nownes p. 13

Of deriuatiues p. 13

Adiectiues p. 14

Degrees of comparison p. 14

Of the pronownes. Cap. 9 p. 14

[Of the affixes] p. 18

Of the uerbe. Cap. 10 p. 20

Rules for the forming of the tenses p. 20

Of a uerbe passiue p. 22

Of uerbes impersonals p. 23

The anomala of the first coniugation p. 2411

The anomala of the 2. coniugation p. 26

Anomala of the 3. coniugation p. 29

Anomala of the 4. coniugation p. 34

Of the particle. Cap. 11 p. 36

Adverbes p. 36

Coniunctions p. 38

Prepositions p.38

Interiections p. 38

Of the syntaxis. Cap. 12 p. 39

Syntaxe of articles p. 39

Syntaxe of nownes p. 39

Syntaxe of pronownes p. 40

Syntaxe of uerbes p. 41

Syntaxe of gerunds p. 43

Syntaxe of participles p. 43

Aduerbes p. 43

Preposition p. 43

Finis p. 44