An introduction to the Italian language. Containing specimens both of prose and verse : Selected from Francesco Redi, Galileo Galilei, Eustachio Manfredi, Giampietro Zanotti, Annibale Caro, Antonmaria Salvini, Rafaello da Urbino, Baldassare Castiglione, Andrea Navagero, Francesco Guicciardini, Caterino Davila, Niccol? Macchiavelli, Giovangiorgio Trissino, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Metastasio, Lodovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Lorenzo Giustiniano, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Angelo Poliziano, Lorenzo de' Medici, Girolamo Fracastoro, Margherita di Valois, Regina di Navarra, Giovanni della Casa, Lorenzo Bellini, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Milton. With a literal translation and grammatical notes, for the Use of those who being already acquainted with Grammar, attempt to learn it without a Master. By Giuseppe Baretti.