Transcription of Compasso's Ballo Della Gagliarda (1560)

A facsimile of this book, with an introduction by Barbara Sparti, is available from fa-gisis, ISBN 3-931344-00-2. Contact them via Uwe W. Schlottermüller, Postfach 5266, D-79019 Freiburg, Germany.

Methodology

This transcription is available in 2 fundamental forms: the raw, which mimics the printed original as closely as possible, and the clean, which has regularized spelling and dehyphenates words. In addition, you can get files as html or text. If you spot any errors, please inform me -- a link to my homepage is at the bottom.


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Concordance, sorted by frequency or alphabetically.

There is a searchable copy of Florio's 1611 Italian/English dictionary at: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/.

You might be able to search an electronic copy of Florio's 1598 dictionary at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/emedd.html.

Cover clean textrawraw text
Dedication clean textrawraw text
Introduction clean textrawraw text
Poem in praise of Lutio Compasso clean textrawraw text
Queste sono le mutanze scempie clean textrawraw text
Mutànze doppie clean textrawraw text
Mutanzie piu difficili clean textrawraw text
Il modo de imparare a far li salti che fi possa far nel ballo della gagliarda clean textrawraw text
Vn'altro bel modo di far il salto riuercio clean textrawraw text
Il modo de imparare affar la Capriola clean textrawraw text
Capriola spartita è passata in Terso clean textrawraw text
La Capriola doppia, e vera clean textrawraw text
Vn'altro modo di fare il salto del Pirlotto clean textrawraw text
Quest'è vna Capriola bellissima, è dificile clean textrawraw text
Il modo d'imparare affare il salto spaccato clean textrawraw text

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