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The Language of Practical Mathematics in Renaissance Italy: A Fifteenth Century Vernacular Didactic Treatise

The Language of Practical Mathematics in Renaissance Italy: A Fifteenth Century Vernacular Didactic Treatise

Ferrari, Valentina
Maiden, Martin

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLinguisticsItalian History

ISBN10: 1032979291
ISBN13: 9781032979298
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume presents the first linguistic and philological analysis, and edition (with English translation) of a fifteenth-century vernacular manuscript from Renaissance Italy, written by an author from the city of Cremona, in northern Italy. The text is a libro d'abbaco, used to teach practical business mathematics to young boys. The vernacular language of these texts has been largely neglected. The libri d'abbaco, however, reveal much about the native language of the ordinary people and the language of banking, and artisan sectors in the major Italian cities of the time. This textbook serves as a starting point to reflect upon some key linguistic, cultural, and intellectual developments in fifteenth-century Lombardy. It provides a thorough comparative-historical analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the work, together with a detailed scrutiny of the lexicon, including specialist vocabulary and distinctively dialectal terms.

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