Select Italian proverbs; . the most significant, very usefull for travellers, and such as desire that language. The same newly made to speak English, and the obscurest places with notes illustrated, usefull for such as happily aim not at the language, yet would see the genius of the nation. By Gio. Torriano an Italian, Professour of the same tongue: and Mr of Arts.
Giovanni Torriano
Category
Books
Date
1642
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3025762
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 100 p. . 12mo. Bound with 'Memoires de la reine Marguerite' (1649). Price-code(?) on item title-page: 'h'. MS proverb on volume flyleaf (17th-century English hand; taken from p. 86 of this book): 'Piu tira un pelo di donna che cento carra di buoi'. Provenance: Signature on flyleaf: J. Dalton J C S [= John Dalton (1628-c.1688), fellow of (1) Magdalene and (2) St John's Colleges, Cambridge ('intruded' at St John's 1650)]. Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 135. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, double fillet borders and off-centre vertical rule; blind-stamped corner-pieces. Spine-label: 'Memoi de Margu'.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Torriano