5-25-43 H.P. The PREFACE. THIS Work has been drawn up by Signor Ricci, Professor at the City of London College, and Examiner in Italian to the Civil Service Commission. It contains Extracts from nearly all the best Italian prose writers, both ancient and modern, which have been selected with the view of making the volume interesting as well as useful to the Student. Of the fifty-two authors from whom extracts are given, one half belong to ancient literature, and the other half to modern (the 18th and 19th centuries). The Extracts comprised in the first half of the Book are followed, each one, by exhaustive Grammatical Questions. Copious Notes are given at pp. 105-146, explanatory of all idioms and obsolete words; and in them reference is made, whenever necessary, to the First Part of the Italian Principia, and to the Syntactical Rules given at pp. 147–167. The geographical and historical subjects mentioned in the Text are explained in the Notes, which contain also short biographical notices of all the authors. The Syntactical Rules here given are an indispensable supplement to the First Part; and they should be thoroughly mastered by the Student in order to understand thoroughly the Text and to be able to write Italian correctly. The Italian Literature being far richer in Poetry |