Grammaire Italienne, en Vingt Leçons, avec des Themes, des Dialogues, et un Petit Recueil de Traits d’Histoire en Italien, a l’Usage des Étudians.
Paris: Chez Froment et Lequien, Libraires, 1827. Item #1328 Small 8vo. 165 x 105 mm., 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches]. 334, [2] pp. Bound in decorated paper boards, vellum spine; rubbing to the paper on covers, edges bumped and worn, some minor foxing to the text block; sound copy. With the ownership signature of James Fenimore Cooper’s daughter Caroline written twice on the front free endpaper, once on the title-page, and once again on the final free endpaper with the title of the book and the date, 1832. There are also a number of reader’s remarks in the margines on 23 pages of the text.
New edition, revised and corrected by Professor Moretti. J. F. Cooper moved his family to Europe in 1826 and remained, mostly in Paris, until 1833. During that time, he wrote many of his most important works and participated in the education of his family and wrote extensively on the subject. In 1831 he traveled to Italy where he and his family spent time in Venice, Rome and Florence, where he wrote his novel, The Bravo, a Tale. It must have been during this time that his daughter Caroline began her study of the Italian language , and it is interesting that she used a French guide, suggesting her fluency in the language. Caroline Fenimore Cooper was the third of seven children, being born in 1815. She would have been between fifteen and seventeen years of age when she used this book to study Italian.
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