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<span style="font-style: normal;">In-8° (cm. 21,1), legatura coeva in piena pelle (restaurata), pp. [4] 338 [2b] in buono stato, con un antico appunto al risguardo; leggera brunitura uniforme e qualche fioritura. Edizione originale. Libro aspro e sprezzante del Baretti diretto al famoso ispanista John Bowle come critica alla sua celeberrima edizione del capolavoro cervantino (1781). «In this work, which is written in a rambling pleasant manner, though with great severity, Mr. Bowle is attacked on his ignorance in pronouncing the Spanish; and consequently on the random, and often improper method of placing accents. He is said also to be ignorant of the Spanish idiom, and to have given wrong or absurd interpretations of many words» [The Critical Review, 1786, vol. 61, p.442]. Cfr. anche R. Merritt Cox, </span><i>The Rev. John Bowle. The Genesis of Cervantean Criticism</i>, University of North Carolina Press, 1971. Buon esemplare. (SD1)