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Excerpt from 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

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.