ITALIAN COURTESY-BOOKS.
William Michael Rossetti translation
FRA BONVICINO DA RIVA’S Fifty Courtesies for the Table (ITALIAN AND ENGLISH)
WITH OTHER TRANSLATIONS AND ELUCIDATIONS
BY WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI.
TO THE ENGLISH PAINTER WHO HAS MADE CIVILIZED MANKIND HIS DEBTOR BY RECOVERING THE PORTRAIT OF Dante BY Giotto, THE TWO DII MAJORES OF ITALIAN MEDIÆVALISM, TO THE BARONE KIRKUP, MY FATHER’S HONOURED FRIEND AND MY OWN, I AM PERMITTED TO DEDICATE THIS SLIGHT ATTEMPT IN A BRANCH OF ITALIAN STUDY LONG FAMILIAR TO HIMSELF.
W. M. R.
June 1869.