Author: [DENINA (Carlo). (MURDOCH (John):
Title: An Essay on the Revolutions of Literature. Translated from the Italian of Sig. Carlo Denina, Professor of Eloquence and Belles-Lettres in the University of Turin. By John Murdoch.
Description: London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand; J. Robson in New-Bond Street; G. Woodfall at Charing-Cross; and T. Evans in Pater-Noster Row. [1771]. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. 12mo, 153 x 96 mms. , pp. [iv], viii, 299 [300 advert], in contemporary gray wrappers; slight staining of inner margin of title-page but a good copy. The Italian historian Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina (1731 – 5 December 1813) at Saluzzo and Turin. In 1753 he was appointed to the chair of humanity at Pinerolo, at the very young age of 22. Thirty years later he went to Berlin for a university post, having been invited by Frederick the Great. This work was first published in 1760 in Italian. Born at Ayr on 25 March 1747, the teacher and writer John Murdoch (1747–1824) was educated in Ayr and graduated from the Universit of Edinbugh. The Oxford DNB records that "After working as an assistant at a private academy, he became a schoolmaster at Ayr Academy, where Burns was one of his pupils. Murdoch described Burns as 'very apt,' although his 'ear' was 'remarkably dull,' and his voice 'untuneable.'" Later, he was one of Burns's correspondents. Oxford DNB adds "Among his publications were Essays on the Revolutions of Literature (1771), translated from Carlo Denina, A Radical Vocabulary of the French Language (1782), a collection of essays and fiction entitled Pictures of the Heart (1783), Orthography of the French Language (1788), and a work on spelling and pronunciation entitled The Dictionary of Distinctions (1811)."

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