Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages, Vol. 1 Altieri was no lefs in the dark as to the beauties of his native lan guage. He had not the leapt fparkle of poetical fire in his foul; and unpoetical people ought never to affume the right of teaching. Be fides, he wrote for bread, and thought apparently of nothing but of multiplying rules, which for the greatefl part are either faulty or unin telligible, that he might fwell a book into a convenient fum of money. 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.