Lenzoni, "In difesa della lingua fiorentina" (1556) -- ed. post. by Giambullari.

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Lenzoni, Carlo. In difesa della lingua fiorentina, et di Dante. Con le regole da far bella et numerosa la prosa. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1556 [colophon: 1557].

This treatise by Carlo Lenzoni defending Dante and the language of Florence was edited after the author’s death in 1551 by Pierfrancesco Giambullari.

After Giambullari’s death, work on the edition was continued by Cosimo Bartoli.

Lenzoni was a Florentine scholar, literary critic, and academician whose work seeks to categorize the genre of the Divina commedia and to establish Dante as the model for a uniform Italian language.