Excerpt from The Italian Library: Containing an Account of the Lives and Works of the Most Valuable Authors of Italy; With Preface Exhibiting the Changes of the Tuscan Language, From the Barbarous Ages to the Present Time The Tufcans, notwithfianding, were then (0 far from pretending to the primacyin language, that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.