BARBA (Giovanni)

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BARBA (Giovanni)
Dell' arte, e del metodo delle lingue. Libri III. Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1734. In-4, half calf, spine decorated, red title-piece (Modern binding in the old taste). The first treatise on philosophical grammar in Italy. First and only edition of this work announced in three books but of which only the first was written and published. Neapolitan scholar born around 1690, Giovanni Barba taught for a long time at the University of Naples and then went to Rome where, after the election of Pope Clement XII - to whom he dedicated his book -, he became the secretary of the Congregation of Studies. From 1737 until his death in 1749 he was Bishop of Bitonto (Bari). "Dell'Arte e del Metodo delle Lingue (1734) ... puo essere condiderato il primo trattato téorico sulla gramatica filosofica in Italia. L'intento principale del Barba è quello di contrastare le tendenze del grammaticalismo minuto per meditare intorno a quelle "pure idee" che si incontrano solamente nei "veri principi e nella verace forma" dell'arte de la lingua... Giovanni Barba was considered a precursor of the "logico-grammatical method" (Pennisi, La Linguistica dei mercatanti. Filosofia linguistica e filosofia civile da Vico a Cuoco, 1987). A copy bearing at the bottom of the title this mention: Ex dono Eruditissimi Authoris; and on the upper back cover, not reported from the old binding, this other mention: Ex Dono Auct. Eq. A. Ph. Adami (is this Antonio Filippo Adami, an Italian writer who died in 1770 and to whom we owe some opuscules on agriculture and political economy?) Wet stamp on title: Bibl. G. Galletti. Restored tear without lack at the lower corner of folio E1.
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